I.

General Overview
Catch-up Subject: Health Education Grade Level: 9
Quarterly Theme: Sub-theme: Prevention and
Drug Education control of
substance use
Time: Date: April 19, 2024
II. Session Details
Session Title: The Essence of Good Life
Session At the end of the session, learners will be able to:
Objectives: a) determine the cause of using psychoactive substances;
b) determine the effects of using psychoactive substances; and
c) give different ways to prevent the use of substance.
Key Concepts:  Psychoactive- relating to a substance having a profound or
significant effect on mental processes.
 Examples of psychoactive substances include alcohol,
caffeine, nicotine, marijuana, and certain pain medicines. Many
illegal drugs, such as heroin, LSD, cocaine, and amphetamines
are also psychoactive substances.
III. Facilitation Strategies
Components Duration Activities and Procedures
Introduction Activity 1: Think and Share
5 minutes
and Do you know Baron Geisler story on battling drugs?
Warm-Up Link:
https://entertainment.inquirer.net/335599/baron-
geisler-recalls-painful-battle-with-depression-drug-use-
alcoholism
*See attachment

Student’s will read his story and give their ideas about
the following questions:
1. What’s your idea about psychoactive substances?
2. Can you give an examples of psychoactive
substances?
3. What are some causes of using psychoactive
substances?
Activity 2: “Take it or leave it”
Directions: The teacher will show different pictures of
prohibited drugs. Through different scenarios in the
pictures they will realize some causes of using
psychoactive drugs.
1. Addiction to alcohol in young people is often
affected by peer pressure.
2. Party goers who are dependent to
amphetamines.
3. A person who is impoverished and has become
dependent on psychoactive substances like,
marijuana, and nicotine.

Processing:

Concept 20 1. What are the common causes why people especially

Exploration minutes teenagers engaged into psychoactive drugs?

2. Give possible effects of psychoactive drugs on

behavior and perception?
 3. What is the essence of having a strong relationship
and support within family members?
4. What are the advantages of being aware of oneself
and the negative consequences of drugs?

Healthy lifestyle- look after our physical health,

emotional, behavioral and mental health.
Directions: Divide the class into four groups. List all the
possible answers in your reflection journal and
share it to the class.

Characteristics of a Healthy lifestyle:

• Spending time together with family and
friends
• Healthy mind, body, and soul
• Being Optimistic
• Caring and willing to listen
• Longer life
• Positive outlook in life
• Positive relationships
• Good self-control

Characteristics of Unhealthy lifestyle:

• Depression
• Loneliness
• Places you in danger
• Doesn’t care
• Paranoid
• One-side relationship

Why do we need to have a healthy lifestyle?

- Makes our lives more fulfilling and rewarding.
- Provides us with emotional support and lift our
spirits during difficult time.
- Are excellent source of encouragement and
motivation.
- Makes us healthier and happier.
- Family support boost our self-worth (how we feel
about our self)
- We feel good about ourselves when we avoid
unhealthy lifestyle and give peace of mind.
Activity 3: “Take the best shot of yourself”
10
Valuing/Wrap-up Directions: Through role playing, slogan, poster making or
minutes compose a song/poem; show different ways to prevent and
control the use of prohibited substances.

Spread awareness campaign through the use of your social

Reflective
5 minutes media on how to prevent and control the use of prohibited
Journaling
substances.

Prepared: Noted:
 ABDUL BEN RADJACK M. UTOH
Teacher-III
Recommending Approval:
ARIEL G. ARGONSOLA
JHS, Asst. Principal II
Baron Geisler recalls painful battle with depression,
Actor Baron
Geisler did
not hold back when it came to answering
questions about his battle with depression,
drug use and alcoholism in the past.
Geisler was the first actor in the cast of
ABS-CBN drama series “Tabing Ilog” to be
given a television series of his own — an
opportunity that many people would not
throw away. At the time, however, Geisler
treated work as just a hobby and would
bring his drinking habits to the set as if it
were a party.
“Ano lang po, parang party, kasi syempre
nanggaling naman kami sa okay na
pamilya, well-to-do naman, so nung
nagtatrabaho ako, pakiramdam ko na hindi
siya trabaho, para siyang hobby lang,”
Geisler shared on “Magandang Buhay” on
Tuesday, June 25.
(I guess it was just a party to me because, of
course, I came from an okay, well-to-do
family, so when I was working, it did not feel
like work to me, like it was just a hobby.)
“So hindi ko siya sineryoso at eventually
hindi rin ako sineryoso hanggang sa nawala
lahat and yun yung pinakamalungkot dun,”
he added.
(I did not take it seriously, eventually they
did not take me seriously until I lost
everything and that’s the saddest part about
that.)
Host Karla Estrada noted that Geisler
became depressed in 2002 when he was 20
MARY JEAN P. NARTE
HT-VI, Science Department
Approved:
JABEL ANTHONY L. NUŇALA PhD
Principal-IV
drug use, alcoholism
years old. “Ano ‘tong mga nagpadepress
sa’yo?” asked Estrada.
As per Geisler, his father, Donald, passed
away that year and he could not handle the
situation because he had no God.
“Ang panginoon ko noong mga time na yun
yung magulang ko, para sa akin yun yung
mind-set ko, so wala akong ibang
tinitingnan,” he said. “And then noong
nawala si Dad, gusto ko siyang samahan sa
libingan noong mga time na yun. I almost
took my life.”
Geisler never lost his love for acting during
those turbulent times, adding he was still
finding his identity.
“I had no one to turn to,” he said. “I wasn’t
praying, I wasn’t meditating and I was just a
lost boy.”
He also revealed he had been in and out of
many rehabilitation institutions, a fact not
many people know. This was during the
time he used drugs heavily and deceived
many people.
“Hindi alam ng tao ‘to, ilang beses na’ko
napasok sa kung saan-saang institusyon.
Nag drugs ako nang todo, hindi alam ng
karamihan to, at nagsinungaling ako…,” he
said. “Andami kong dineceive kasi in-denial
nga ako sa problema ko, sa disease ko. I
was really struggling and I wasn’t asking for
help because I thought it was manageable, I
thought I could handle it…”
(People do not know this, but I’ve entered all
sorts of institutions many times in the past.
I used drugs heavily, most people do not
know this, and I lied. I deceived so many
people because I was in denial of my
problem, of my disease.)

The turning point, it seems, was during his

last meeting with his mother, Gracia, before
she died in 2017. At the time, Geisler was
about to go to a five-day rehabilitation
program in Tagaytay and was saying
goodbye to his mother.

“Sabi ko, ‘ma, alis ako (ma, I’m leaving), I’m

a good boy, ma. I’ll see you in five days, I
love you,’” he recalled telling his mother.

What happened next, he said, was a

moment one would think they would only
see in the movies.

“Totoo pala yung sa pelikula, yung may

gusto siyang sabihin sa akin, and then sabi
ko, ‘Yes ma, yes ma?’ Hindi ko alam
hanggang ngayon kung anong gusto niyang
sabihin,” he said. “So binigyan ko na lang
ng meaning.”

(It was just like in the movies. She wanted to

say something to me and I said, “Yes ma,
yes ma?” Until now I still do not know what
she wanted to say. So I just gave it my own
meaning.)

“Before I die, siguro…,” said Geisler. “I don’t

want to put words sa mouth niya, pero
siguro parang, ‘Please take care of yourself,
because I’m not here anymore.’”

(Before I die, I guess… I don’t want to put

words in her mouth, but I guess [she meant
to say], “Please take care of yourself,
because I’m not here anymore.”) Cody
Cepeda /ra
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