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Vice Drug Education and Control
EDUCATION
AND VICE
CONTROL
DRUGS
• A drug is a chemical substance used as a medicine or in making medicines,
which affects the body and mind and have potential for abuse. Without an
advice or prescription from a physician, drugs can be harmful.
• Drug is substance, vegetable, mineral or animal in origin, used in the
composition or preparation of medicine or any substance use as medicine.
• Drug can be defined as natural or synthetic substances that are used to produce
physiological or psychological effects in man or other higher or animals.
• Drug is any substance which when taken by the individual will cure his illness or
relieves him of the signs and symptoms of the disease.
DRUG ABUSE
• Deliberate use of medically useful drugs which have the
capacity to alter mood and behavior without the benefit
of a prescription.
• It refers to the use of a medically useful mood-altering
drug for a purpose different from the one for which the
drug has been indicated.
MEANS UNNECESSARY USE OF TOO MANY DRUGS, THE UNWARRANTED USE
OR NON- USE OF ANY DRUG, THE INAPPROPRIATE USE OF DRUGS AND
COERCIVE USE OF DRUGS
TWO FORMS OF DRUGS
• Natural Drug - plant leaves, flowering tops, hashish,
opium and marijuana
• Synthetic drugs - are products by clandestine laboratories,
which includes those drugs that are controlled by law
because they are used in medical practice. These drugs can
only be legitimately purchased when prescribed by a
licensed physician.
TWO CLASSES OF DRUGS AS ACCORDING
TO THE MANNER OF ACQUISITION
• Prescriptive drugs - is
drugs requiring written
authorization from a doctor
before they can be
purchased.
TWO CLASSES OF DRUGS AS ACCORDING
TO THE MANNER OF ACQUISITION
• Over- the – Counter
drugs( OTC’s) - are non-
prescription medicines, which
may be purchased form only any
pharmacy or drugstore without
written authorization from a
doctor; are used in prevention
and symptomatic relief of minor
ailments.
RA. 9165
SEC. 18. Unnecessary Prescription of Dangerous Drugs –
Penalty of imprisonment of reclusion temporal and a fine of
100,000 to 500,000 and additional revocation of license to
practice shall be imposed upon the practitioner, who shall
prescribe any dangerous drug to any person whose physical or
physiological condition does not require the use or in the dosage
prescribed therein
Self-Medication Syndrome – Found in
all users and would be users of drugs
whose
• sources of information are people or literature
other than doctors, pharmacists, and health
workers. These could be members of the family,
relatives, and/or neighbors; all whom may have
previously used the drug for their specific disease
or disorder.
• It may work against the good of the user
because it can lead to intoxication and other
adverse reaction.
WHAT IS THE
PLACEBO
EFFECT?
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DRUGS
The amount of drug in dose:
• Minimal Dose – the amount needed to treat or heal, that is, the smallest
amount of drug that will produce a therapeutic effect
• Maximal Dose – the largest amount of a drug that will produce a desired a
therapeutic effect, without any accompanying symptoms of toxicity
• Toxic Dose – the amount of drug that produces untoward effects or
symptoms of poisoning
• Abusive Dose – the amount needed to produce the side effects and action
desired by an individual who improperly uses it
• Lethal Dose – the amount of drug that will cause death
HOW DRUGS ARE ADMINISTERED?
• Iontophoreris/
Electrophoresis – the
introduction of drugs into the
deeper layers of the skin by
the use of a special type of
electric current for local effect
Drug Dependency
State of mind in which a person has lost the power of self control in
respect to drugs
• Physical dependence - can only be discernible when drug intake is
decreased or stopped and an involuntary illness called the withdrawal
syndrome occurs.
• Psychological dependence - exhibited when a user relies on a drug to
achieve a feeling of well- being. A person believes that the drug is
needed to function at work or home because drugs often produce an
elated/ excited emotional state.
SAMPLE BOARD QUESTION
Diego is a drug addict. Realizing that drug use will
bring him elsewhere he ceased from using it. Diego’s
act is called:
A.Abstinence
B.Rehabilitation
C.Self medication
D.Dependence
CLASSIFICATIONS OF DRUG ABUSERS
Situational Users - Those who use drugs to keep them awake or
for additional energy to perform an important work.
Spree Users - School age users who take drugs for “kicks’, an
adventurous daring experience, or as a means of fun.
Hard Core Addicts - Those, whose activities revolve almost
entirely around the drug experience and securing supplies.
Hippies - Those who are addicted to drugs believing that drug is
an integral part of life.
SAMPLE BOARD QUESTION
Occurs when the body becomes accustomed to a drug as the
drug is repeatedly taken in the same dose.
A. Dosage
B. Tolerance
C. Habituation
D. Gravity
CONTRACEPTIVES-
DRUGS THAT PREVENT
THE MEETING OF THE
EGGCELLS AND
SPERMCELLS OR
PREVENT OVARY FROM
RELEASING EGGCELLS
THE MEDICAL USES OF DRUGS
DECONGESTANTS- THOSE
THAT RELIEVE CONGESTION
OF THE NASAL PASSAGES
Demerol
• Synthetic drug with morphine
like effect which is widely used
as painkillers in childbirth
DEPRESSANTS
Codeine
• Usually present in cough
syrup
• Usually present in cough syrup
• Also called as SCHOOL BOY
• A component of opium and derivative of
morphine , analgesic found in some cough
syrups
• Taken orally or by injection
• While codeine may be extracted opium, most
codeine is synthesized from morphine through
the process called O- methylation
DEPRESSANTS
Barbiturates
• Drugs used for inducing sleep
in persons plagued with
anxiety, mental stress, and
insomnia.
• symptoms of alcohol
intoxication without odor or
alcohol on breath
STREET NAME: LILY ,LID
POPPERS,DOWNERS,YELLO
W JACKETS, BLUE HEAVENS
WHERE THEY ARE: MADE
FROM BARBITURIC ACID
(BARB) PRESCRIBED TO
INDUCE SLEP OR PROVIDE
CALMING EFFECT
HOW IS BEING TAKEN:
ORALLY (TABLET/CAPSULE);
SOMETIMES
INTRAVENOUSLY
DEPRESSANTS
Volatile Solvents
• These includes any liquid,
solid or mixed substance
having the property of
releasing toxic vapor or
fumes.
• Gaseous substances popularly
known to abusers as “gas”,
“teardrops”.
• DANGERS : CAUSES
PERMANENT DAMAGE TO
BRAIN OR RESULT IN
“SUDDEN SNIFFING
DEATH’’ USERS BECOME
ACCIDENT PRONE; DEATH
DUE TO ROAD
ACCIDENTS,DROWNING
FALLING FROM TALL
BUILDING. ETC AFTER
SNIFFING
GLUE ;VIOLENCE;PSYCHO
LOGICAL DEPENDENCE.
DEPRESSANTS
Alcohol
• The king of all drugs with
potential for abuse.
• Most widely used, socially
accepted and most extensively
legalized drug throughout the
world.
DANGERS : Addiction,
cirrhosis,Brain Damage, obesity, may
lead to cancer of the esophagus,
Alcohol intestines, pamcreas, thyroid, and
breast
Street Name :
Beer ,whisky ,Gin ,Brandy wine,
Effects :Sedation; impairs mental
and physical functions ; increase the
risk of heart attack and stroke
How much blood-alcohol content is needed to
be considered prima facie evidence that a
person is under the influence of intoxicating
liquor? (June 2017 CLE)
A. 0.05%
B. 0.15%
C. 0.5%
D. 0.25%
DEPRESSANTS (Symptoms of abuse)
• inhaling heroin in powder form leaves traces of white powder
around nostrils causing redness
• pupils are constricted and fail to respond to light
• user often leaves syringes, bent spoons, bottle caps, eye droppers,
cotton and needles in lockers at school or hidden at home
• staggering or stumbling
• lack of interest in school and family activities
• poor muscular control
• excessive nasal secretions, watering of eyes
HALLUCINOGEN
Lysergic Acid
Diethylamide (LSD)
• Derived from the fungus
claviceps purpurea which
infects wheat.
STREET NAME: lucy in the sky with
HALLUCINOGEN diamonds, wedding bells ,white sugar,
lightning cubes, brain eaters
Lysergic Acid
Phychological :vivid hallucination,
Diethylamide (LSD) confusion ,blurring between conscious
• This drug is the most and unconscious though, etc
powerful of the psychedelics Physical : dilated pupils,flushed
obtained from ergot, a fungus face,increase BP , etc
that attacks rye kernerls Dangers: may cause abnolmal amount of
• Discovered by albert hoffman breakage of chromosomes that carry
genes, whick result in miscarrieages in
birth defects
HALLUCINOGEN
Mescaline
• Drug derived from the dried
tops of the peyote cactus, a
small cactus native to Mexico.
STP- Serenity It is a chemical
Tranquility Peace derivative of
mescaline claim to
produce more
violent and long
effects than
mescaline dose
HALLUCINOGEN
Marijuana
(Cannabis Sativa
L.)
• Country’s most commonly
abused hallucinogen
• Marijuana (Cannabis Sativa)- considered to be the world’s oldest
cultivated plant started by the Incas of Peru.
• Considered by the early Assyrians as a “Sacred Tree” grown for use
as incense during rituals-some 9,000 year ago before the birth of
Christ.
• The first reference of introduction was in Northern Iran as an
intoxicant. And from there it spread throughout India by the Hindus
used for religious rituals in the belief that it is the source of
happiness and “laughter provoker”.
• The word ‘Hashis (resin)” of the marijuana plant was derived from
the name Hasan or Hashasin, the Muslim cult leader who fed his
disciples a preparation made from resin of the female hemp plant as
a reward for their successful activities in assassination.
• The Chinese apparently had a great deal of respect for the plant, and
obtained fiber for clothes as well as medicine from it for thousands
of years. They gave it a name that means” valuable” or “endearing”
– “Ma” (Maw). In the 1930s marijuana was still called “Ma”.
Male Marijuana Plant Female Marijuana Plant
IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA USE
• faster heartbeat and pulse rate
• bloodshot eyes
• dry mouth and throat
• altered sense of time and disorientation
• forgetfulness
• inability for coordination and slower reflexes
U.S -Marketing
THE WORLD’S DRUG
SCENE
Middle East
Lebanon is considered to be
the biggest producer of
Cannabis in the Middle East.
THE WORLD’S DRUG
SCENE
Spain
This is known as the major
transshipment point from
international drug traffickers in
Europe and became “the
paradise of drug users in
Europe.”
THE WORLD’S DRUG
SCENE
Mexico
It is known in the world to be
the number one producer of
marijuana.
THE WORLD’S DRUG
SCENE
Philippines
The second in Mexico as to the
production of Marijuana.
It is noted that Philippines today
is known as the drug paradise of
drug abusers in Asia.
THE WORLD’S DRUG
SCENE
Philippines
Green triangle
Kalinga
Mountain province
benguete
THE WORLD’S DRUG
SCENE
India
The center of the world’s drug
map, leading to rapid addiction
among its people.
THE WORLD’S DRUG Hongkong
The world’s transshipment point
SCENE of all forms of heroin.
China Japan
The transit route for heroin from The major consumer of cocaine
the “Golden Triangle” to and shabu from the United
States and Europe.
Hongkong.
It is also the country where the
“epedra” plant is cultivated- source
of the drug ephedrine- the principal
chemical for producing the drug
shabu.
DRUGS THAT ORIGINATES FROM GOLDEN TRIANGLE
BURMA/MYANMAR
THAILAND LAOS
In Southeast Asia – the “Golden Triangle” approximately produced 60% of
opium in the world and 90 % of opium in eastern part of Asia also the
officially acknowledged source of southeast Asia Heroin
The Norte del Valle Cartel, or the North Valley Cartel rose to prominence during the
second half of the 1990’s after the Cali Cartel and the medellin Cartel Fragmented and
become known as one of the powerful organization involved in the illegal drug trade .
The leading barons are Diego Leona Montoya Sanchez, alias “Don Diego”, Wilber
Varela, alias “JABON”(Soap), and Hernando Gomez Bustamante, Alias
“RASGUNO”(SCRATCH)
SAMPLE BOARD QUESTION
Marijuana has been one of the most abuse hallucinogens in
the Philippines and its control becomes difficult according to
some authorities due to the fact that:
A. Easy to smoke secretly
B. It is sellable in the market
C. It is easy to cultivate
D. It is demand
SAMPLE BOARD QUESTION
R.A 6425
PD 1619(VOLITILE SUBSTANCES)
Under RA 9165, otherwise known as the Comprehensive
Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 , the term prohibited and regulated
was charnged into dangerous drug with the following
classification:
Exception;
If the penalty is life imprisonment to death, then the
penalty shall be reclusion perpetua to death.
Can a violator of RA 9165 still save himself from
conviction?
Any person who can gives information about any violation of
section 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16 and those committed drug
syndicate or give information leading whereabout, identities
and arrest of all of all or any members thereto and who
willingly to testify againts such person shal be excempted
from prosecution or punishment.
Provided;
• The information and testimony are necessary for the conviction of
the persons described above
• Such information and testimony are not yet in the possession
of the State
• Such information and testimony can
be corroborated on its material point
• The informant or witness has not been
previously convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude,
except when there is no other direct evidence available for
the State other than the information
and testimony of said informant or witness
JURISDICTION OVER
DANGEROUS DRUGS CASES
SEC. 90. Jurisdiction. — The Supreme Court shall designate special
courts from among the existing Regional Trial Courts in each judicial
region to exclusively try and hear cases involving violations of this
Act. The number of courts designated in each judicial region shall be
based on the population and the number of cases pending in their
respective jurisdiction.
The preliminary investigation of cases filed under this Act shall be
terminated within a period of thirty (30) days from the date of their
filing.
SEC. 90. Jurisdiction. —
When the preliminary investigation is conducted by a public
prosecutor and a probable cause is established, the corresponding
information shall be filed in court within twenty-four (24) hours from
the termination of the investigation
Trial of the case under this Section shall be finished by the court not
later than sixty (60) days from the date of the filing of the information.
Decision on said cases shall be rendered within a period of fifteen (15)
days from the date of submission of the case for resolution.
SAMPLE BOARD QUESTION
One of the drug control approach where directed
toward enforcing the prohibition of illegal drugs,
A.Supply Reduction
B.Demand Reduction
Q. It is an inter-agency team tasked in the deterrence,
prevention and protection of Filipinos from being
victimized as drug couriers by international drug
trafficking syndicates.
Drug Mule – Are individuals who transport dangerous
drugs in exchange for a huge amount of money,
depending on the amount of drugs to be delivered and
the route/distance to be traveled.
A. The Task Force Drug Couriers (TFDC)
THE DRUG ABUSE JARGONS
Jargons Meaning
• Opiate Narcotic
Juni Heroin