UNIT IV:

PREVENTION OF
SUBSTANCE USE
AND ABUSE
(Gateway Drugs)
What are Gateway
Drugs?
Why do you think
cigarettes and alcohol are
considered gateway
drugs?
Since cigarettes and alcohol are readily available and generally
accepted in our society, so many people use them for various
purposes.
Teenagers like you are especially vulnerable because you are
more curios and risk-takers.
  National Youth Commission (NYC) – two (2)
According to out of five (5) Filipino teenagers aged 13-15
studies by: years old smoke cigarettes

 Anti- Tobacco group (2011) ten Filipinos die

every hour because of tobacco-related diseases