Lecture on Anti-Illegal Drugs And Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002 (R.A.

9165)

Deputy Chief of Police

Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use
despite harmful consequences to the individual who is addicted and to those around them.

Drug addiction is a brain disease because the abuse of drugs leads to changes in the structure and
function of the brain.

DRUGS - A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise
introduced into the body. A drug is something that affects your body. Drugs must be able to pass
through the body and into the brain; interferes with brain's neurotransmitters

TYPES OF DRUGS

4 Main Types:

Cannabis can cause health problems both physical and mental

2. Stimulant - Speeds up or stimulate the central nervous system and can make the users feel more
awake, alert or confident.

3. Hallucinogenic - drugs distort the user's perceptions of reality. The main physical effects are dilation
of pupils, loss of appetite, increased activity, talking or laughing, jaw clenching, sweating and sometimes
stomach cramps or nausea. Drug effects can include a sense of emotional and psychological euphoria
and well-being. Visual, auditory and tactile hallucinations may occur, causing users to see or hear things
that do not actually exist.

4. Inhalants - Inhalants are volatile substances that produce chemical vapors that can be inhaled to
induce a psychoactive, or mind-altering, effect.

Some Effects of Smoking

•One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.

• Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.

• The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your
heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. This can cause heart attacks and
stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having
their limbs amputated.

• Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a
full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.

• Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the
smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
• Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and
especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.

• Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more
likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers

Alcohol abuse is a serious problem. It is a pattern of drinking too much alcohol too often.

Alcohol abuse can lead to physical dependency on alcohol, or alcoholism.

Provisions Under R.A. 9165

Section 41. Involvement of the Family

Section 42. Student Councils and Campus Organizations

Section 43. School Curricula

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9165  (June 7, 2002)

THE COMPREHENSIVE DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT OF 2002, REPEALING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6425,
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT OF 1972, AS AMENDED Approved: January 23,
2002

GLORIAMACAPAGAL-ARROYO
President of the Philippines

Narcotics Investigation - is an investigation of acts committed in violation of RA 9165 which is primarily

focused on illegal drug activities such as: importation, sale, possession, manufacture, maintenance of
drug den, dive or resorts, unlawful use, etc.

Clandestine Laboratory - Any facility used for the illegal manufacture of any dangerous drug and or
controlled precursor and essential chemicals.

Cultivate or Culture - Any act of knowingly planting, growing, raising or permitting the planting, growing
or raising of any plant which is the source of a dangerous drug.

Den, Dive or Resort - A place where any dangerous drug or controlled precursor and essential chemical
is administered, delivered, stored for illegal purposes, distributed, sold or used in any form.

Dispense - Any act of giving away, selling or distributing medicine or any dangerous drug with or without
use of prescription.

Protector/Coddler - Any person who knowingly consents to the unlawful acts provided and uses his/her
influence, power, or position in shielding, harboring, screening or facilitating the escape ofany person
he/she knows or has reasonable grounds to believe on or suspects has violated in order to prevent the
arrest, prosecution, and conviction of the violator.
Pusher - Any person who sells, trades, administers, dispense, delivers transit or transports dangerous
drugs or who acts as a broker in any of such transactions.