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Helping Youth Stay

Drug-Free Through
Literacy
FRANCIS GRACE H. DUKA-PANTE
Director, ASEAN Training Center for Preventive Drug Education
Health Education Professor, University of the Philippines
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While standing on your left leg, point with:

1. your left hand index finger the part affected by emphysema (lungs)
2. your right hand little finger Strawberry
the partsadaffected by throat cancer (throat)
3. your right hand thumb the part affected by gum disease (mouth)
4. your right knee the part affected by infertility (groin)
5. your left elbow the part affected by stomach ulcers (stomach)
6. your nose the part affected by heart disease (heart)

Get Ready, 2013. Melbourne: Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
e-Presentation Objectiv
“School is not about
repairing all social evils.
It is about repairing one:
the evil of ignorance.”
Wilson, 1998
Personal, family, and societal costs

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SUBSTANCE USE

Personal Factors Environmental Factors


Genetics Poor literacy skills Lack of role models Negative peer
influence
Drug Literacy

Media Literacy

Metaliteracy
ability to obtain, understand,
acquiring the, promises and panaceas.

and use information to guide


drug-related decisions
acquiring the, promises and panaceas.
acquiring the, promises and panaceas.
269 million people 1.67 million people
worldwide aged in the Philippines
16-64 years used aged 10-69 years
drugs at least once are current drug users
in 2018

Fact: DRUG-FREE MAJORITY


Estimated Percentage of 8th, 10th, and 12th Grade Students Smoking Cigarettes in the Past 30 Days
(Monitoring the Future Study- 1991-2015)

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NEstimated Percentage of 8th, 10th and 12th Grade Students Smoking Cigarettes in Past 30 Days --Monitoring the Future Study: 1991-
T 2015

http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/data.html
The teen brain
Estimated Percentage of 8th, 10th and 12th Grade Students Smoking Cigarettes in Past 30 Days --Monitoring the Future Study: 1991-
2015
is still under
construction

http://straightupvc.org/brain-development-teen-behavior-and-preventing-drug-use
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tophttps://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/infosheet/understanding-substance-use-a-health-promotion-perspective
https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/infosheet/understanding-substance-use-a-health-promotion-perspective

https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/infosheet/understanding-substance-use-a-health-promotion-perspective
acquiring the pressures, promises and panaceas.
acquiring the pressures, promises and panaceas.
1. More drug equals more risk.
2. Younger age
acquiringequals more
the pressures, promises risk.
and panaceas.

3. Places, time, and activities influence risk


4. The reasons are important.

iMinds (2016). Centre for Addictions Research of BC.


ability to critically analyze for
accuracy, credibility, or evidence
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/media-literacy

of bias the content created and


consumed in various media
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/media-literacy
acquiring the knowledge and skills needed to successfully navigate the world in which we live – a world full of drug-related
pressures, promises and panaceas.
his week, we’re here to dispel substance use/addiction #myths. Today’s topic: #alcohol. While alcohol is often seen as less
dangerous than "hard" drugs, alcohol actually increases stress in the body & puts people at higher risk of disease such as
cancer and liver failure.
Steps in Deconstructing an Alcohol Ad
1. Make observations.
What are the images and colors used?
What effects do they have on the ad?

2. Determine the purpose of the ad.


his week, we’re here to Who is the target
dispel substance audience?
use/addiction #myths. Today’s topic: #alcohol. While alcohol is often seen as less
dangerous than "hard" drugs, alcohol actually increases stress in the body & puts people at higher risk of disease such as
What emotions does cancerthe
and ad
liver attach
failure. to the product?

3. Determine the assumptions the ad makes.


What kinds of assumptions does the ad makes about drinking?
Are these assumptions true?

4. Consider the possible consequences of these messages.


Is this ad socially responsible?
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Bandwagon
https://sanmiguelbrewery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/slide0018_image031.jpg

“Everyone is doing it.”

https://sanmiguelbrewery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/slide0018_image031.jpg
Testimonial
https://adobomagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/emperador_ating_tagumpay_-_563.png

Celebrity
endorsement

https://adobomagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/emperador_ating_tagumpay_-_563.png
Glittering
Generalities
http://acidcreations.blogspot.com/2013/11/blog-post_3253.html

Associating the
product with a
generalized value
http://acidcreations.blogspot.com/2013/11/blog-post_3253.html
Transfer
Transforming
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The product into


something else

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Counter-Ad
Example
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AdBusters, 2011

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Following-the-visual-language-of-ads-from-Absolut-Vodka-the-spoof-ads-from-AdBusters_fig2_307607534
What messages are aimed…AT YOU?

• independence
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• social acceptance
• coolness

https://www.who.int/images/default-source/youth-engagement/hackathon/youth-hackathon-cover.jpg?sfvrsn=987a6cc4_2
What messages are aimed…AT YOU?

• attractiveness
• being thin
• sophistication
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• escape
• pleasure
• freedom and independence
• romance and relationships

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What messages are aimed…AT YOU?

• sexual conquest
• success
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• sophistication

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ability to reflect critically and
support the collaborative
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/media-literacy

creation and exchange of


information in the digital age
Mackey & Jacobson, 2011
How to be metaliterate
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Learn to reflect on how you process
information based on your feelings or
beliefs.
False:
Alcoholic drinks
while reduce coronavirus
risk.
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Abdulmaula, Normeliza (2021)


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Estal, Princess Bernadette (2021)


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Gaba, John Roland (2021)


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Aurelio, Juan Albert (2021)


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Mengua, Vina Naomi (2021)


Harness the
power
of connection.
References:
Analyzing alcohol advertisements and marketing. https://www.frankwbaker.com/mlc/alcohol/

Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research. Understanding substance use: A health promotion perspective.
https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/infosheet/understanding-substance-use-a-health-promotion-perspective

Can’t seem to stop those ads following you around? Why not become ‘metaliterate’?
https://theconversation.com/cant-seem-to-stop-those-ads-following-you-around-why-not-become-metaliterate-44818
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How can we learn to reject fake news in the digital world?
https://theconversation.com/how-can-we-learn-to-reject-fake-news-in-the-digital-world-
69706?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1481060297

Media Education Foundation. Deconstructing an alcohol advertisement. www.mediated.org

Start A Conversation: 10 Questions Teens Ask About Drugs and Health. https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/start-
conversation-10-questions-teens-ask-about-drugs-and-
health?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nidateens_6_11_21#topic-2

Wechsler, R. (2001). Prevention tactics. EMT Group.


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