WHAT IS DRUG?
 The notion that drugs give enjoyment to users
A drug is a chemical substance that brings about
physical, emotional, or behavioral change in a
person taking it.
WHY IS DRUG EDUCATION SO
IMPORTANT?
 Drug education is to stop substance abuse and
addiction…
 With illegal drugs easily made available to
anyone looking for them, it is important that
looking for them, it is important that people focus
on raising awareness about the dangers of drugs
and drug abuse.
WHAT IS DRUG ABUSE EDUCATION?
 Drug education is the planned provision of
information, resources, and skills relevant to
living in a world where psychoactive substance
are widely available and commonly use for a
variety of both medical and non –medical
purposes, some of which may lead to harms such
as overdose, injury, infectious disease.
WHEN ARE DRUGS HARMFUL?
 Any drug may be harmful when taken in excess.
Some drugs can also be harmful if taken in
dangerous combinations or by hypersensitive
(allergic) persons in ordinary or even small
amounts.
WHAT IS DRUG ABUSE?
 It is the use of any chemical substance which
results in an individual’s physical, mental, or
social impairment.
 It may refer to any of the following practices:
- Using, without benefit or prescription use of
drugs which have the capacity to alter mood/
behavior.
- Using drugs for a purpose different from the
one for which the drugs has been prescribed.
- Using drugs and substances having no
legitimate medical application for purposes
other than research.
WHY DO PEOPLE TURN TO DRUGS?
 “Medicines” can solve problems
 Widespread access to various drugs
 “Peer Pressure”
and in the context that is used as an alcohol
substitute.
DRUGS THAT ARE COMMONLY USED
1. STIMULANTS
- Drugs which increase alertness and physical
disposition.
Examples: Amphetamine, Cocaine, Caffeine,
And Nicotine
Amphetamine
- Colorless liquid with acrid taste and faint odor
which is greatly stimulates the central nervous
system.
Methamphetamine Hydrochloride
- Known as “shabu” is a white odorless crystalline
powder with bitter taste, considered as the most
abused stimulant in the Philippines. Abusers
administer it through the body by ingestion,
inhalation, sniffing, or by injection.
Ecstasy
- A synthetic amphetamine related substance,
white, yellow, or brown in color with a bitter
taste and comes in forms of tablets, capsules, or
powders in various designs and shapes.
Cocaine
- Known as “coke” , alkaloids obtain from the
leaves of the coca plant, used as local anesthetic
in minor surgery , one of the shortest and
strongest stimulants.
Caffeine
- Active ingredient of coffee, tea, cola beverages,
used to constrict blood vessel and as remedy for
headaches, diuretic, and treatment of severe
asthma.
Nicotine
- Poisonous alkaloid which is an active ingredient
in cigarette and tobacco.
2. HALLUCINOGENS (also called
psychedelics)
- Drugs which affect sensation, thinking, self-
awareness, and emotion. Changes in time and
space, perception, delusions (false beliefs) and
hallucinations may be mild or overwhelming,
depending on dose and quality of drug.
Examples; LSD, Mescaline, And Marijuana
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)
- A crystalline substance derived from fungus
which infects wheat or rye. Best known and most
potent hallucinogen taken orally in the form of
tablets, gelatin, or impregnated paper
Mescaline
- A drug derived from dried tops of peyote cactus.
Phencyclidine (PCP)
- Considered as menace and highly dangerous
drugs because it can easily be synthesized with
no medical purpose for human but used by
veterinarians as anesthetic and sedative for
animals.
Marijuana
- Known as cannabis which is a mild
hallucinogenic drug derived from crushed leaves,
flowering tops and stems of hemp plant
“cannabis sativa”. Usually smoked or eaten for
pleasure in juicing and folk medicine in central
Asia and China.
3. SEDATIVES
- Drugs which may reduce anxiety and
excitement.
Examples: Barbiturates, Non barbiturates,
Tranquilizers, and Alcohol
4. NARCOTICS
- Drugs that relieve pain and often induce sleep.
Examples: Opium and its derivatives such as
Morphine, Codeine, and Heroin.
Opium
- Coagulated juice of opium poppy formerly used
as pain reliever but has been replaced by
morphine and codeine.
Phenanthrene Alkaloids
- Used as analgesic and cough suppressants.
Morphine
- Principal alkaloid of opium exists in a white
crystalline base and sold as tablets and injectable
solution.
Codeine
- Alkaloid extracted from morphine and used as
mild analgesic.
Heroine
- White crystalline narcotic synthesized from
morphine and used as cough suppressant.
Inhalants
- Substances that are not usually considered
drugs but have great potentials for abuse.
- They are inhaled, or sniffed for their
psychoactive mind/ mood altering. Effects can be
achieved immediately and can last long up to 45
minutes, depressing the central nervous system.
This includes the class volatile
hydrocarbons such as glue, (rugby),
gasoline, kerosene, (gaas), paint thinner,
and solvent, nail polish and cuticle
remover, lighter fluid, and fluorocarbons
such as aerosol sprays, nasal sprays, and
chemical isoamyl nitrite (poppers).
6. DEPRESSANTS
- Known as “downers”, drugs which act on and
depress the central nervous system causing initial
relaxation leading to drowsiness and sleep.
Alcohol
- Specifically, ethyl alcohol which is the main
ingredient of all alcoholic beverages. Certain
brands of liquor such as gin, whiskey, brandy,
Pilsen and rum are the most preferred by
alcoholics or problem drinkers to achieve the
desired effect.
Sedative- Hypnotics
- Include barbiturates and benzodiazepines most
commonly refer to as minor tranquilizers. These
drugs are used medically in the treatment of
epilepsy, insomnia, and anxiety.
 HOW CAN YOU TELL WHEN ONE IS  Seek professional help if you feel you cannot
ABUSING DRUGS? cope with your problems.
 Develop strong moral and spiritual foundations.
A person who is abusing drugs has a lot of  Roles of the Youth on drug detection and
changes in behavior, appearance, and mood. The prevention
changes may be pleasant or unpleasant. Thus he-  Be firm to say “ No to Drugs”-
 Connect with your friends but avoid negative
- Is irritable, discourteous, defiant, and aggressive; peer pressure.
- Is untrustworthy and lacks self- confidence;  Make connections with your parents or other
- Is unhealthy and unconcerned with good adults.
grooming;
 Enjoy life and Do what you Love.
- Has a low frustration tolerance;
 Follow the family Rules about alcohol and drugs
- Lacks interest in his studies/ work;
 Get educated about alcohol and drugs
- Blames everybody for his problems and;
- Prefers his “friends” where he feels accepted.  Be a Role Model and set a positive example.
 Planning ahead is important.
WHAT ARE THE ILL- EFFECTS OF  Speak out/ speak up/take control
DRUG ABUSE?  Get help.
1. Malnutrition
- The lives of drug dependents resolve around PENALTIES AGAINST DRUG ABUSE
drug abuse. They miss their regular meals - The Senate and the House of the Representatives of
because they lose their appetite. the Philippines passed Republic Act No. 9165,
known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Acts of
2. Panic Reaction 2002, on May 29, 2002 and May 30, 2002
- The loss of thought processes can cause panic respectively.
reactions or feelings or invulnerability.
- This act repeals R.A. 6425 and provides for the
3. Physical Damage imposition of more severe penalties and the
- Liver and kidney damage may result when creation of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
large quantities are taken. Many who abuse drugs (PDEA) to carry out the provisions of this Act.
also neglect personal hygiene, which can lead to
multiple health problems. Kidney failure, UNLAWFUL PENALTY
hepatitis, drastic weight loss, and vitamin ACTIVITY
deficiencies are some of the adverse physical 1. Importation of Life imprisonment to death.
complications. Dangerous drugs. Fine ranging from Five
Hundred Thousand to ten
million pesos.
2. Sale, trading, Life imprisonment to death.
THINGS TO DO TO PREVENT DRUG administration, Fine ranging from Five
ABUSE delivery, Hundred Thousand to ten
 Maintain good physical and mental health. distribution, and million pesos.
 Use drugs properly. Most drugs are beneficial transportation of
when used under medical advice. dangerous drugs.
 Understand your own self. Accept and respect 3. Maintenance of Life imprisonment to death.
yourself for what you are. Den, Drive, or Fine ranging from Five
 Develop potentials. Engage in wholesome, Resort Hundred Thousand to ten
productive and fulfilling activities. million pesos.
 Learn to relate effectively to whom you can 4. Employees and Imprisonment ranging from
communicate your problems freely. visitors od Den. 12 years and 1 day to 20
 Learn to cope with your problems and other Drive or Resort years and a fine ranging
stresses without the use of drugs. from one hundred thousand
 pesos and five hundred
thousand.
5. Manufacture of Life imprisonment to death.
dangerous drugs Fine ranging from Five
and /or controlled Hundred Thousand to ten
Precursor and million pesos.
essential
chemicals.
6. Manufacture of Imprisonment ranging from
Delivery of 12 years and on 1 day to 20
equipment, years and a fine ranging
instruments, from one hundred thousand
apparatus, and pesos and five hundred
other thousand.
paraphernalia for
dangerous drugs.
7. Possession of Life imprisonment to death.
dangerous Drugs Fine ranging from Five
Hundred Thousand to ten
million pesos.
8. Possession of Imprisonment ranging from
equipment, 6 months and 1 day to 4
instrument years and fine of ten
apparatus and thousand to fifty thousand
other pesos.
paraphernalia
during parties,
social gatherings
or meetings.
9. Use of dangerous For First time, Six months
drugs rehabilitation in
government center. Second
time, imprisonment from 6
years and 1 day to 12 years
and fine from 50 thousand
to 20 thousand pesos.
10. Cultivation or Life imprisonment to death.
culture of plants Fine ranging from Five
classified as Hundred Thousand to ten
dangerous drugs million pesos
or are sources
thereof