Drug Addiction

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What is Illegal Drugs?
› Drugs are substances that change a person’s mental or
physical state. They can affect the way your brain works, how
you feel and behave, your understanding and your
senses. This makes them unpredictable and dangerous,
especially for young people.
How do Drugs Made?
Plants - for example, cannabis (marijuana), mushrooms, or
tobacco
processed plant products – for example, alcohol, or heroin
synthetic chemicals – for example, ecstasy or
amphetamines.
The 2 main types of drugs ingredient
1. active ingredients – the ingredients that biologically affect your
body
- Active ingredients include those components of the product
that may undergo chemical change during the manufacture of the
drug product and be present in the drug product in a modified form
intended to furnish the specified activity or effect.

2. inactive ingredients – these generally have no biological effect.

They include binding agents, capsules, dyes, preservatives,
flavourings and other ingredients
-inactive ingredients are necessary components for any
medication. They not only play an important role in drug
composition, they can help with absorption, delivery, and much
more!
What is Addiction?
› an enthusiastic devotee of a specified thing or activity.
› a person who is addicted to a particular substance, typically an
illegal drug.
- This simply means a person/people is getting attached on a specific activity or
in a particular thing.
What causes a person to be addicted on drugs?
1. It is started with “Curiosity”
2. Peer Pressure
3. Mental Health Factors
4. Desire for Success
5. Lack of Supervision
-Lack of a Good Supervision
What is Drug Addiction?
› It is really only this expression of addiction – Uncontrollable,
Compulsive Craving, Seeking and Using of Drugs. These are the
elements responsible for the massive health and social
problems caused by drug addiction.
Causes/Symptoms:
Drug Addiction symptoms or behaviors include among others:
• Feeling that you have to use the drug regularly – daily or even several times
a day
• Over time, needing more of the drug to get the same effect
• Failing inn your attempts to stop using drug
What is Drug Addiction?

› Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease

that affects a person's brain and behavior and leads to an
inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or
medication
› In 2021, there were about 41.5 thousand reported cases
involving illegal drugs in the Philippines, majority of which
were reported by the National Capital Region's (NCR) regional
police office. Reported cases of illegal drugs in the region
reached around 12.4 thousand.
– According to Statista.
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› Facts about Drug (most commonly is Shabu)
– Methamphetamine HCL, a type of amphetamine is also known as
“poor man’s cocaine”. Other names are Shabu, Ubas, Siopao, Sha and
Ice. Shabu is a white, odorless crystal or crystalline powder with a
bitter numbing taste.
– Abusers are known to take this drug by ingestion inhalation (chasing
the dragon), sniffing (snorting) or by injection. Amphetamines are
regularly absorbed orally and are associated with a rapid onset of
action, usually within one hour when taken orally. If taken
intravenously or through injection, they have an almost immediate
effect.
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› Facts about Drug (most commonly is Shabu)
– Adverse Effects
– Produces anxiety, tension, irritability, irrational behavior, talkativeness
and loss of self control
– Results in loss of appetite and inability to sleep
– Euphoria, elation
– Can lead to acute psychotic reactions, violent and destructive
behavior and recklessness that may results in accidents

› PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
– Includes chest pain, irregularity of heart beat, elevated or lowered
bloodpressure, evidence of weight loss, convulsion and death from
cardiac arrest.
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› LONG TERM EFFECTS
– Psychiatric consequence are the major feature of chronic “shabu”
abuse and dependency. Prolonged use and even a single exposure
especially if administered intravenously can lead to manifestation of a
full blown psychosis which is similar to schizophrenia characterized by
the presence of paranoid delusions, auditory and visual
hallucinations. The paranoia may lead to violent and aggressive
behavior.
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