Drug Education and Vice Control MODULE

OBJECTIVES:

1. To know the origin of drugs

2. To be knowledgeable regarding the effects of drugs

3. To know the effect of dangerous drugs in human

body

Medicines vs. Drugs

All medicines are drugs, but not all drugs are medicine drug.

MEDICINE DRUGS

A substance which when taken into the human body cures illness and/ or relieves
signs/ symptoms of disease.

DANGEROUS DRUGS

A substance affecting the central nervous system which when taken into the human
body brings about physical, emotional or behavioral changes in a person taking it.

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• Drug Abuse

-Any non-medical use of drugs that cause physical, psychological, legal,

economic, or social damage to the user or to people affected by users behavior.

-Abuse usually refers to illegal drugs but may also be applicable to drugs
that are available legally, such as prescribed medications and certain over-the-counter
medication

CLASSIFICATION OF DRUGS

❖ According to origin:

a. Natural Drugs

Are active ingredients, secondary metabolic products of plants and

other living systems that may be isolated by extraction.

Examples:

Raw opium
Marijuana
Coca Bush

b. Synthetic Drugs

Are artificially produced substances, synthesized in the laboratory

for the illicit market, which are almost wholly manufactured from chemical compounds in
illicit laboratories.

Examples:

Methamphetamine
Barbiturates

❖ According to Legal classification:

a. R.A. 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002)

R.A. 9165 gives a single definition to dangerous drugs, removing the

distinction between prohibited and regulated drugs. The old law defines the

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“dangerous drugs” as pertaining to either “prohibited drug” or a “regulated

drug”

b. P.D 1619(Volatile Substances)

An act penalizing the use or possession or the unauthorized sale to

minors of volatile substances for the purpose of inducing intoxication or in any
manner changing, distorting, or distributing the auditory, visual or mental
processes.

c. R.A 6425 (Classified as: Regulated and Prohibited)

Under R.A. 6425, otherwise known as The Dangerous Drug Act of

1972:

“Dangerous Drugs” refers to either:

1. Prohibited Drugs

Which includes opium and its active components and derivatives,

such as heroin and morphine; coca leaf and its derivatives, principally
cocaine; alpha and beta eucaine; hallucinogen drugs such as mescaline.

“Regulated Drugs” which includes self-inducing sedatives, such as

secobarbital, Phenobarbital, Pentobarbital and amobarbital and any other
drug which contains a salt or derivative of a salt or barbituric acid

❖ According to Internal Classification

a. Narcotic Substance

-Any drug that produces sleep or stupor and also relives pain (Medical)

-Depress the central nervous system to produce a marked reduction in

sensitivity to pain, create drowsiness and reduce physical activity

b. Psychotropic Substance

=Any substance natural or synthetic or any natural material that have a

high potential for dependence and abuse.

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-These drug are highly addictive but, despite the risk, they remain in
medical use because no satisfactory non-addictive alternative medication
is available

Examples:

Heroin, Marijuana, Cocaine, Amphetamines, Morphine and some

Barbiturates.

Pertaining to any drug or agent having a particular affinity for or effect barbiturates

2. Designer Drugs

-Substance chemically related to but slightly different from controlled

substance.

-Designed by clandestine chemists with the aim to manufacture

compounds that produce “the High” or euphoria of a parent drugs and
avoid the penalties that would be levied against those illegally trafficking
the controlled substance.

❖ According to Pharmacological Classification (Effects):

• Stimulants
• Hallucinogens
• Depressants
• Inhalants

STIMULANTS

Are drugs which increase alertness of physical disposition.

Examples:

1. Amphetamine

Street Name: Eye Opener, Lid Poppers, Pep Pill

What it is: Reduce appetite

Relieves mental depression
Comfort fatigues and sleepiness

How Taken: Orally as tablet or capsule

Effects: General: wakefulness, increased alertness/ initiative

Toxic: from restlessness to coma and death

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Dangers: Dependence, Overdose, Violent/Bizarre Behavior

2. Shabu (Methamphetamine Hydrochloride)

Street Name: Poor Man’s Cocaine, S,

Shabs, ubas, siopao, ice,

What it is: White odorless crystal/

crystalline powder with bitter numbing
taste.

How Taken: Ingestion, inhalation

(chasing the dragon), sniffing, injection,
smoked

Effect:

▪ General:
Anxiety, irritability, irrational behavior
▪ Physical:
Chest Pain, irregular heartbeat, hypertension, convulsion

Dangers: Injection from contaminated needles may lead to risk of

infections, phlebitis, septicemia, AIDS

HALLUCINOGENS

-Are 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
drugs.

Examples:

1. Ecstacy

Street Name: Adam, E, essence, herbal

How taken: swallowing or inhalation

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Effects: An exaggerated emotion, make HR and BP hike up, dries mouth,

stiffens arms, legs, jaw, dilates pupil of the eye, causes faintness chill
sweating and nausea

Danger: Can Kill

2. Marijuana

Street Name: Mary Jane, pampapogi,

damo, tea, pot

How taken: Smoked in pipes/ cigarettes:

can be taken in food, made into candy,
sniffed powder form, mixed with honey or
butter.

Effects:

Immediate: Faster heartbeat,

bloodshot eyes, dry mouth

Long Term: Chest Pain, Temporary loss of fertility, cancer,

marijuana burn-out.

Dangers: Slow down user’s mental and psychomotor activities, long term
use may lead to psychological dependence; may lead to cancer.

Depressants

Are drug which depress or lower the function of the Central Nervous System.

TYPES OF DEPRESSANTS:

a. Narcotics

-A drug which induce sleep (Hypnotic) or stupor and relieves pain

(Analgesics)

-Something that soothes, or causes a sensation of mental numbness

-This includes Opium, Opiates, Heroin, Morphine and Codeine

Example of Narcotics:

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1. Codeine

Street name: School Boy

What it is: Ideal analgesic; found in some cough syrups

How to being taken: Orally (Tablet or liquid) by Injection

Effects: Analgesic and cough suppressant with very little sedation or

exhilarant (euphoric) action; dependence can be produced in large dose

Dangers: Occasionally taken for kicks; dependence may occur;

occasionally resorted by opiate-dependent persons to tide them over if
heroin is difficult to obtain with inadequate result

Sedatives and Hypnotics

-Calm nerves, reduce tension and induce sleep.

Example: Barbiturates, alcohol

2. Heroin

-It is an alkaloid derives from morphine, white off white or brown crystal
powder.

Effect: Slurring of speech, cyanosis; dry skin and mouth; anoxia;

urticarial; pulmonary ventilation; pulmonary edema; hyperglycemia

3. Morphine

-Principal active component in opium; white crystalline powder, light

porous cubes, small white tablets

Effect: initial reaction is unpleasant to most people but calming

supersedes and, depending on dose, may progress to coma and death
from respiratory failure.

ALCOHOL

Effect: Sedation; impairs mental and physical

functions, increase the risk of heart attack and
stroke

Danger: Addiction; cirrhosis; brain damage;

obesity; may lead to cancer of the esophagus,

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intestines, pancreas, thyroids and breast.

VOLATILE SUBSTANCES

❖ Inhalants

-these are any liquid, solid or mixed

substance that has the property of releasing toxic
(psychoactive) vapors or fumes

Examples:Solvent, aerosol glue, gasoline,

kerosene, paint thinner

What they are: Liquid, solid or mixed

substance having the property of releasing toxic
vapors or fumes or any chemical substance
which when sniffed, smelled, inhaled, or introduced into the physiological system
of the body produce/induce of a condition of intoxication, inebriation, excitement,
stupefaction.

How it is being taken: Sniffing or inhaled directly through the container or from
a bag or by holding a rag with the substance in the mouth

Danger:Cause permanent damage to the brain or may result in sudden sniffing

death; users became incident prone; death due to road accidents, drowning,
falling from tall building, etc.

References:
Drug Education and Vice Control by Arlyn Canete, Antenietto
Cañete, Dean Ma. Cristina Sangil, Arman De Vera , Edmundo
Banagan, Godyson Dolfo

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