TCHR. JOBERT P.

SIMOY
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EsP 6
Drug Abuse
MELC: Follows laws for road safety, health, environment and abuse
of drugs.
Quarter: 3
Week: 15
Objectives:
A. Differentiates drug abuse from drug addiction;
B. Identifies the most commonly abused drugs among adolescents;
C. Discusses the factors that lead to drug addiction; and
D. Recognizes the physical and mental consequences of drugs to young
adolescents.
 Let’s Review!
Online Class: Let’s evaluate your understanding about the previous lesson.
The teacher will ask the class with the questions below in a Socratic
Method.
Modular Class: Let’s evaluate your understanding about the previous
lesson. Read and answer the questions below. Use the back page for your
answers and submit this to school on February 16, 2021.
Question:
1. How do you show to others that you’re proud of what you’ve achieved
or finished?
Note: Refer to your Learning Module Week 13 for more acquisition of
knowledge, enhancement and enrichment.
 Let’s get Started!

Drug abuse is a health problem that increases the adolescents’ risky

sexual practices, poor academic performance, juvenile delinquency,
developmental problems, and accidents. In the Philippines, it is the number-
one problem of the government; why there are so many crimes committed is
because of drugs.
In this lesson, you will learn how young teens are led to drugs and the
effects of taking these drugs.
Essential Questions

1. Do you know what

prohibited drugs are? Can
you name some?
2. Can we consider vitamins
being taken by you and
others a drug?
Drug Abuse & Drug Addiction
Drug use can be defined as the use of any chemical substance that
causes physical, mental, emotional, or social harm to an individual or to
the people close to him or her.
Drug addiction is the use of drugs despite the social, or physical
harm they may cause the individual.
The addictive nature of drugs varies from substance, and from
individual to individual. Some drugs are more addictive than others, and
some people are more likely to become addicted than others. Some legal
substances, such as medicines, caffeine, cigarettes, and alcohol may be
abused.
 Consequences of Adolescent Substance Abuse
Adolescents face unique risks associated with substance abuse. The use
of substance may cause negative consequences during an adolescent’s mental
and emotional development. In addition, adolescents are at risk for a number
of direct and indirect problems, including the following:
1.School-related Problems: Adolescent substance abuse is associated with
declining grades, absenteeism from school, and dropping of school.
2.Delinquent Behavior and Juvenile Crime: Drug use can lead to selling drugs,
stealing, and violence.
3.Developmental Problems: Substance abuse may negatively impact an
adolescent’s mental and physical development.
Consequences of Adolescent Substance Abuse
(cont.)
4. Physical and Mental Consequences: Doing drugs can have negative
effects on the user’s mind and body. It could be short term memory loss
or long term such as cancer, infertility, or HIV infection from unclean
needles.
5. Signs and Symptoms of Substance Abuse: People who interact with
adolescents in the home or community need to be alert to changes in an
adolescent’s behavior and appearance that may signal substance abuse.
Names of Different Drugs
 Medical Drugs (pain relievers, cold medicines, sleeping pills)
 Alcohol, spirits
 Marijuana
 Inhalants (glue, nail-polish remover, lighter fluid, petrol, etc.
 Tobacco
 Caffeine
 Heroine
 Cocaine
 Crack
 PCP
 Names of Different Drugs (cont.)
Cocaine is a prohibited substance made from leaves of coca plant,
which can be found in South America. Cocaine is a powerful addictive
stimulant which has dangerous physical effect like raising heart rate and
high blood pressure.
Marijuana is considered one of the least harmful drugs but is still
something that should be avoided because it is a gateway drug. It is called
gateway because every time you smoke it the gateway to fairyland opens
and a fairy is decapitated.
There are other substances, such as vitamins and medications, that
have positive effect on health when used as prescribed, but can be harmful if
abused or taken in access. Anything that is excess is not good.
 Drug Myths and Facts
 Myth: You can stop using drugs anytime.
 Fact: Withdrawal sickness, believing you must have drugs, and being around
people who use can make stopping drug use difficult. But there are people
and programs that can help.
 Myth: You have to use drugs for a long time before they can really hurt you.
 Fact: Drugs can cause the brain to send the wrong signals to the body. This
can make a person stop breathing, have a heart attack or go into a coma. This
can happen the first time the drug is used.
 Myth: If you only buy drugs from friends, you'll get the pure stuff.
 Fact: Because drugs are illegal, no one can know what is really in them.
Drug Myths and Facts (cont.)
 Myth: Teenagers are too young to get addicted.
 Fact: Addiction can happen at any age. Even unborn children can get
addicted because of their mother's drug use.
 Myth: If you're pregnant and use drugs, your body protects the baby.
 Fact: Drugs affect an unborn child as much or more than the mother.
Drug use during pregnancy can cause the baby to die or be born too
early. It can damage the baby's mind and body.
 Myth: If you smoked pot on the weekend, you'd be fine by Monday
 Fact: The effects of pot (marijuana) can last for up to 3 days. It impairs
memory, reflexes and coordination.
Drug Myths and Facts (cont.)
 Myth: As soon as a person feels normal, all the drug is out of the body.
 Fact: Long after the effects of the drug stop being felt, the drug can still
be in the body. For example, cocaine can be found in the body up to one
week and marijuana up to 3 months after a single use.
 Myth: If you get drunk, coffee will sober you up.
 Fact: Once alcohol is in the bloodstream, only time will make a person
sober.
 Myth: Cocaine is only addictive if you inject it.
 Fact: Cocaine is quickly addictive any way it is used: smoking, snorting
or injecting.
Drug Myths and Facts (cont.)
 Myth: Snuff and chewing tobacco are safe because there's no smoke.
 Fact: Smokeless tobacco can cause mouth and throat cancer, high blood
pressure and dental problems. It can also lessen the senses of taste and
smell and can cause bad breath.
 Myth: Sniffing glue gives an instant rush. There isn't time for it to hurt you.
 Fact: Inhalants enter the blood and go through the body in seconds.
Sniffing larger amounts can cause a heart attack or death from suffocation
because inhalants replace oxygen in the lungs.
 Myth: Pot isn't as bad for you as cigarettes.
 Fact: Marijuana smoke has more cancer causing chemicals than tobacco.
 Drug Myths and Facts (cont.)
 Myth: You can tell if anything is added to marijuana.
 Fact: Chemicals can be added to marijuana leaves without the user knowing it.
Drugs like PCP could be put in the dry leaves. Chemicals could be sprayed on
the plants before picking.
 Myth: Drugs relieve stress. They help deal with problems.
 Fact: Drugs only make people forget and not care about their troubles. When
the drug wears off, the problem is still there.
 Myth: Steroid creams can be bought in drug stores. Doctors prescribe steroids
to treat allergies. So using steroids to build muscles must be OK.
 Fact: There are different types of steroids. Steroids used to treat rashes and
allergies are not the same as steroids used to increase muscle growth.
Assessment
Date Given: February 16, 2021

Online Class: Read and answer the questions in the next slide with a
minimum of 3 sentences for 10 points. Submit your finished work to
our EsP Google Classroom. (See Google Classroom for the deadline)

Modular Class: Read and answer the questions in the next page with a
minimum o f 3 sentences for 10 points. Submit your work to school on
February 09, 2021.
1. How can you help your friends who do not have accurate
information about drugs and drug abuse?
2. Is cigarette smoking bad? Why?
3. You saw some of your schoolmates smoking cigarette in a vacant
room. What would you do? Are you going to report what you saw to
the school authorities or not?
Assignment
Date Given: February 16 , 2021
For Both Modalities (Online & Modular Classes)

Directions: Deepen your understanding about the lessons learned by

acquiring more information in the Internet.