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ISSUP Gambia Officials Pay Courtesy Visit to ISSUP Kaduna Coordinator

Executive Director Alasana Drammeh and General Secretary Mamudou Jallow of the ISSUP Gambia Chapter recently paid a courtesy call to the ISSUP Kaduna Coordinator Professor Ronke Grace Awopetu who is currently in the Gambia as part of a team of 15 Nigerian professors and doctors sent to support the University of the Gambia (UTG). 

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Cigarette/Nicotine use - a Gateway to other drug use?

ISSUP The Gambia would like to invite you to attend their upcoming Webinar on Cigarette/Nicotine use.
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ISSUP Gambia Chapter Launches “Don’t Touch” Campaign for Young Children

The ISSUP Gambia Chapter on Friday, November 25th launched a substance awareness campaign dubbed “Don’t Touch” for young children at the Sarah Kindergarten and Primary School in Lamin, in the West Coast Region of the Gambia.

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The ISSUP Gambia National Chapter Ends Celebrations Marking World Drug Day with A School Visit

With assistance from the Support. Don’t Punish Campaign, the ISSUP Gambia National Chapter organized a school intervention program as part of its commemorations marking the International Day Against

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The ISSUP Gambia National Chapter Holds Workshop to Commemorate World Drug Day

As part of its day’s long event celebrating the International Day Against

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ISSUP Gambia National Chapter Hosts Football Tournament to Mark World Drug Day

The ISSUP Gambia National Chapter joined the rest of the world on Sunday, June 26th, 2022 to celebrate the International Day Against

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DLEAG launches Bakoteh school drug free club chapter

Bakoteh Upper and Senior Secondary School in partnership with Drug Law Enforcement Agency - The Gambia (DLEAG) through the

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ISSUP National Chapter Launched in the Gambia

The Gambia has finally joined the prestigious list of countries forming the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP). The small West African country recently formalized its membership in the global

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ISSUP The Gambia Launch

ISSUP The Gambia would like to invite you to their launch event followed by a webinar on Community Resilience in Substance Use.
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ISSUP Gambia Chapter Sensitizes Students on Drug Prevention Strategies

“Drugs are bad, you must not indulge in drugs and other illicit substances.” These were the words of Alasana Drammeh, the Executive Director of ISSUP Gambia while addressing a group of students at the Glory Baptist International School on Tuesday March 1st, 2022. Drammeh made the remarks at a workshop organized for about 50 teenage students as part of ISSUP Gambia’s program to sensitize school children on crucial preventive strategies to help them stay away from drugs.

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