It is contemplated to use a new manual at secondary schools in order to expand awareness in Azerbaijan on the harmful habits that badly influence on human body. “Complex measures must be taken in the field of the harmful things that influence on human body. A new educational supplies were prepared in the frame of the Programme of Narcotics Control in the Southen Caucasus. The manual is envisaged both for teachers, and pupils and have been submitted to the Ministery of Education. The manual is planed to be used from January”, - the local coordinator of the Programme of Narcotics Control in the Southen Caucasus, Mazahir Afandiyev told Trend News on Wednesday.

1029 people who use intravenous narcotic injection have been infected with HIV in Azerbaijan in 2008. Lately, 2411 people have been brought to responsibility due to the illegal circulation of drugs in Azerbaijan. It is said that 69 people out of them are women, 64 people are foregn residents and 5 out of them are teenagers. This year law enforcements have arrested 1243 people for criminal actions connected with drugs in the first half-year of. Among the Azerbaiajani citizens brought to criminal responsibility, there 3 teenagers.

According to Mr. Agandiyev, 50 000 copies of the textbook have been sent to the Mnistry of Education. It is essential to advocate and promulgate issues that influnce on human health either in higher schools or secondary schools. In former times we were stressing out the seriousness of the damage of drugs in the globalizing world, but now there are such viruses that, it is hard to find their root. It is necessary to take preventive measures in time”, --Mr. Afandiyev added.

The director of the department Upbringing and Institutions other than Schools Agababa Ibrahimov told Trend News on Wensday that, the books prepared in the frame of the Programme of Narcotics Control in the Southen Caucasus were looked through and approved.