Allan Christian Abarintos

DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

FACTS When are Drugs Harmful?

• 200,632 anti-illegal drugs 1. If taken in dangerous combination
operations conducted 2. If taken by hypersensitive person
• 289,622 people arrested 3. If taken in excess
• 6,117 person died during anti-
drug operations Substance Abuse
• Php59.14 Billion total value • Excessive use of a substance
seized especially alcohol or a drug
• Over-indulgence or dependence
PROFILE OF DRUG ABUSERS IN THE on addictive substance especially
PHILIPPINES (2019) alcohol and drugs
Source: www.ddb.gov.ph
AGE Mean age of 32 Drug Abuse
SEX Male to Female 9:1 • Use of chemical substance, licit
ratio
CIVIL STATUS Single 49.28%
or illicit, which results in an
EMPLOYMENT Employed 55.31% individual’s physical, mental or
EDUC’L HS-Level 27.29% social impairment
ATTAINMENT o Licit – lawful drugs
RESIDENCE Urban (NCR) 4.81% o Illicit – forbidden/unlawful
DURATION OF > 6 years drugs
DRUG USE
NATURE OF Mono drug use
DRUG TAKING Drug Dependence
ABUSED Methamphetamine • A compulsion to use drug to
DRUGS HCI (Shabu) experience psychological or
Cannabis
(Marijuana) physical effects
Contact Cement • This dependence results in
(Rugby)
ECONOMIC Average Family physical harm, behavior
STATUS problems, and association with
people who also abuse drugs
Drugs
• A chemical substance that brings DRUG ROUTE
about physical, emotional or 1. Ingestion – taking in the
behavior change in a person substance
taking it 2. Inhalation – inhaling/breathing in
• Any chemical substance in which the substance
when acts on a living body alter 3. Injection – injecting the
the physiological process use for substance into your skin or veins
prevention, diagnosis, control, 4. Suppository – designed to be
and even treatment of disease inserted into your rectum to be
dissolved
5. Topically – to be applied directly
to the part of the body

1
 Allan Christian Abarintos
DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

ETIOLOGY/FACTORS o Association with known

• Biological drug users
o Children of alcoholic
parents are at high risk TYPES OF DRUGS
o Higher risk dependence • Depressants (Downers)
than those children of non- o Substances or drugs which
alcoholic parents act on and depresses the
o Include genetic CNS
vulnerability o Initially causes relaxation
• Psychological o Alcohol (specifically
o Inconsistency of parent’s Ethyl Alcohol)
behavior ▪ Early course of
o Poor role modeling alcoholism typically
o Lack of nurturing of begins between the
parents ages of 15 and 17
o Also includes familial years of age
tendency ▪ Symptoms of
• Social/Environmental withdrawal usually
o Cultural factor begins 4-12 hours
o Social attitudes after cessation or
o Peer behaviors after you stop
o Cost/Availability of the o Barbiturates
substance ▪ Sedative hypnotics
• Hallucinogens (Psychedelics)
How can you tell when one is abusing o Natural or synthetic
drugs? psychoactive drugs
• Appearance ▪ Psychoactive drugs
o Injection Marks have direct effect on
o Conceal Needle Marks the CNS that
o Neglect Grooming causes changes in
o Wearing Sunglasses at your perception
inappropriate times o Hallucination is a common
• Mood side effect (type of
o Changes in mood hallucination: visual
o Irritability hallucination)
o Defiant Behavior o LSG – Lysergic Acid
o Aggressions Diethylamide
• Behavior o STP – Serotonergic
o Regression from normal Psychedelics/Mescaline
o PCP – Phencyclidine/Ketamine
capabilities
o Blaming everyone o Cannabis/Marijuana
o Low frustration tolerance ▪ Mild hallucinogen
o Petty crimes drug

2
 Allan Christian Abarintos
DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

• Stimulants o Caffeine
o Drugs used to induce ▪ Active ingredient of
alertness, elevate your coffee and tea
mood, increase your ▪ Usually used to
speech, mental and motor constricts blood
activity vessels
o Can decrease appetite, but ▪ Can be a remedy
on the other hand, it can for headaches if it is
cause grandiosity taken in moderation
▪ Grandiosity – o Nicotine
sense of superiority ▪ A poisonous
o Hallucinations could also alkaloid which is an
happen active ingredient in
o Methamphetamine cigarettes and
HCl/Shabu tobacco
▪ Most common • Narcotics (Opiates)
stimulant o Include drugs derived from
▪ White odorless opium
crystalline powder o Usually used medically to
with bitter taste relieve pain
▪ Considered to be ▪ Morphine
the most abused ▪ Demerol
stimulant in the ▪ Codeine
country ▪ Heroine
▪ Can be taken by • Inhalants
ingestion and o Substances that are not
inhalation usually considered drugs,
o Cocaine but have a great potential
▪ Generally used as for abuse
local anesthetic in o 3rd abused substance in
minor surgeries the country
▪ Known as the o Inhaled or sniff for their
shortest but psychoactive effect
strongest stimulant o Can cause significant brain
▪ Peak time of onset damage
after last used is o Can also cause liver
around 30-60 mins. diseases
▪ Detectable in the ▪ Pain thinner
body for 2-4 days ▪ Aerosol spray
o Ecstasy ▪ Glue
▪ Designer/Party ▪ kerosene
drugs