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Health
Quarter 2, Wk. 8 - Module 8
Healthy Alternatives to Substance Use
and Abuse

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

Health - Grade 9
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 2, Wk.8 - Module 8: Healthy Alternatives to Substance Use and Abuse
First Edition, 2020

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Health
Quarter 2, Wk.8 - Module 8
Healthy Alternatives to Substance Use and
Abuse

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 Table of Contents

What This Module is About ................................................................................................................... i

What I Need to Know .............................................................................................................................. ii
How to Learn from this Module ...........................................................................................................ii
Icons of this Module ...............................................................................................................................iii

What I Know ........................................................................................................................................... iii

Lesson 1:
Suggest Healthy Alternatives to Substance Use and Abuse ..............
What’s In ........................................................................................................................1
What New ......................................................................................................................1
What Is It ..................................................................................................................... ...2
What’s More ............................................................................................................... ..3
What I Have Learned …………………………………………………………..4
What I Can Do .......................................................................................................... .4

Summary………………………………………………………………………………….………5
Assessment: (Post-Test) ………………………………………………………………………6
Key to Answers ......................................................................................................................... .7
References.................................................................................................................................. ..7
What This Module is About
This module deals with strategies that include application of decision-making skills and
the use of resistance skills in different situations related to substance use and abuse. Decision-
making and resistance skills will help you enhance your knowledge, skills and attitude in facing
and overcoming real-life situations. You will practice these skills in class and will be guided by
your teacher. You will also learn healthy alternatives to prevent the use of drugs of abuse.
Before you go through this learning module, you need to answer the pre-assessment
which checks your prior knowledge, processing and understanding of the topics.
Healthy alternatives to prevent the use of drugs as part of this module will keep you
understand and informed that even a drug dependent has its alternative ways to heal and
change themselves into better ones.
Lastly, this module is very important to each and every one of us to learn and be
knowledgeable about the use and abuse drugs. How these drugs has the capability to destroy
lives. And that’s why you need wise decision skills in order to avoid that.

What I Need to Know

This lesson deals on how to prevent and control the substance use and abuse. The lesson
will teach you how to make Decision-making skills and the of use Resistance skills in different
kind of situation. It will enhance your knowledge in deeper understanding, thoughts and ideas
and the attitude in facing and overcoming harmful situation in life. You will have activity in the
class that will enhance your capability as a student and be guided by your teacher. And also
provide some suggestion about healthy alternatives to prevent the use of drugs of abuse.

OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
• Apply decision-making and resistance skills in situations related to substance use
and abuse
• Describe healthful alternatives to substance use and abuse
How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

Icons of this Module

What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that

Know are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

What I know This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
knowledge
What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that
of the current one.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you

What is It These are discussions of the activities as a

way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

What’s More These are follow-up activities that are in-

tended for you to practice further in order to
master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what you

Learned have learned from the lesson

What I can do These are tasks that are designed to show-

case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and situations.
 What I Know

Multiple Choice: Encircle the answer of your choice.

1. This is the best way for people to avoid the use and abuse of drugs?
a. Prevention c. Control
b. Cure d. All of the above

2. These are helpful skills that will enable a person to say No?
a. Control c. Decision-making
b. Resistance skills d. All of the above

3. It is identifying and choosing alternative ways?

a. Resistance skills c. Decision-making
b. Control d. All of the above

4. The following are various modes of treating drug dependents except one.
a. Eclectic Approach c. Therapeutic Approach
b. Spiritual Approach d. Voluntary

5. Among the choices provided which one that can be used to develop resistance skills.
a. Give confidence in saying No to drugs
b. Be friends with drug users
c. Do not have confidence in saying No to drugs
d. Lack of self confidence

6. The following are healthy alternatives in prevention of drug addiction, except;

a. Go with friends always
b. Eat , exercise, and sleep in time
c. Always think of bad influence friends
d. Skip meals and sleep

7. The drug dependent decides on his/her own to be examined by health specialist and
admitted to rehabilitation center.
a. Compulsory confinement
b. Voluntary thru representations
c. Voluntary
d. All of the above

8. This approach uses Bible teachings as a source of inspiration to change drug

dependents
a. Eclectic approach
b. Therapeutic approach
c. Hazelden-Minnesota Model
d. Spiritual approach
 Suggests Healthy Alternatives
Lesson to Substance Use and Abuse
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What’s In

The lesson contains with Healthy Alternative ways to prevent drug abuse. This is to
create a diversion technique in keeping away from people from using drugs.

People are start abusing drug including tobacco, alcohol, and illegal and prescription
drugs-during adolescence and young adulthood. Many factors influence whether adolescence
use drugs, including the availability of drugs within the neighbourhood, community, and school.

The teenage years are the most dangerous stage when it comes to drug influence
because their brains are developing and exploring. Their thinking is immature and because of
curiosity the more they are get into trouble.

The healthy alternative ways will help to avoid drug use and abuse. Don’t stress lead
to using drugs, alternatives to self-medication can start with good sleep, exercise, and eat
regularly and healthy meals. Also in focusing physical strength and fitness as for recreational
activities can avoid to drugs use and abuse.

Lesson Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to;

• Describe healthy alternatives to substance use and abuse

• Suggest other healthy alternatives pertaining to substance use and abuse

What’s New

Healthy Alternative – are healthy tips and ways to avoid substance use and abuse. These
are diversion act to keep from using drugs. It will help sharpen your mind and will think
straight and made a right decision

Tips:
1. Involved in healthy community activity
- Is working with community to improve the built environment as part of Active
people.
- An equitable community is one that offers complete social, physical and mental
well-being.

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 2. Keep yourself busy
- Create new challenge, you must talk to your favourite fictional characters, read
some books to keep your mind busy and might travel alone.

3. Eat properly don’t skip meals

- Skipping meals can also cause your metabolism to slow down, when you skip a
meal or go a long time without eating, eating regularly can keep you think well
and good.

4. Be engage in sports
- Through casual or organized participation, aim to use, maintain or improve
physical ability and skills. It will help you fight depression and anxiety.

5. Sleep well
- It plays a vital role in good health and well-being throughout your life. Getting
enough quality sleep at the night times can help protect your mental health,
physical health, quality of life and safety.

6. You must not have a long break

- It provides opportunities for people to learn important life skills, that when people
mingled together, they learn how to take turns, resolve conflicts, and solve
problems
Also manage their own emotions and behaviour and fundamental skills for life.

What Is It
Activity 1: Create and Discover
1. Create a graphic organizer showing healthy alternative ways to substance
use and abuse
2. List down at least 3
3. Prepare for a short presentation

Healthy Alternatives to Prevent Substance Use and

Abuse

Process Question:
1. Is the lesson very important to learn? Why?
2. What will you do if one of your friends mingling with other peers that you might think
they are bad influence?

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 What’s More

To deepen your understanding, do activity 4.

Activity 2:
Using the chart below, answer truthfully about your understanding of the lesson taken
up. Put check (√) mark on the column provided to show how you understand the
topics.

Topics I have a good I still have some I DONT get it

understanding question
Involved in healthy
community activity
Keep yourself busy
Eat properly don’t skip
meals
Be engage in sports
Sleep well
You must not have a long
break

Activity 3: Short Quiz

Essay
Write your answer briefly
1. How will you say NO to peer pressure?
2. How will you act responsibly and intelligently about using drugs?
3. Give 1 healthy alternative ways to prevent drug use and explain.

Activity 4:
1. Fill in the blank circles with what
you think are healthy alternatives
that can help prevent substance
use and abuse.
2. make it creative in creating on your
own
Healthy
Sample diagram Alternatives

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 What I Have Learned
Activity 5: Differentiated Activities
The activity shows what the students learned from the lesson discussed. To find out if
students know what they are going to do with the activity.
1. Choose one activity listed in the table that you want to do
2. Prepare for a short presentation of your activity

Write a poem related to healthy

Alternatives to prevent substance Create
Use and abuse anti-drug campaign song

I want to...

Write an article about ways to

Prevent drug use Make a poster about healthy
Alternatives in substance use
And abuse

What I Can Do
As a student, you can do more out of life. To deepen your understanding, insights, knowledge
in developing healthy alternatives in substance use and abuse.

Activity 6: Poster making

1. Make a poster showing healthy alternative ways to prevent substance use and
abuse.
2. The students have a free will to choose either of the tips of the healthy
alternatives to substance use and abuse
3. Prepare for a short presentation in class
4. You will be rated based on rubric 1 is the lowest and 5 is the highest score

Criteria Points

Cleanliness

Appropriateness

Content

Neatness

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Process Question:
1. How will you choose your concept?
2. How you will make your campaign convincing to others?
3. Is it hard for you to make a campaign against drug use? Why?

Summary

Drug is good when it is used to treat people’s illnesses, it can help to eases the pain
of the person who uses it as treatment. The present drug scenario in the Philippines is
changing. The local and international drug syndicates are being apprehended and prosecuted
as mandated by the law.
The proliferation of drug use and abuse is the result of greediness of people to earn
more money from drugs and create an issue of health concern in the society. In the Philippines
the most commonly used drugs are shabu, marijuana and inhalants or solvents.
The government along with non-governmental organizations and private institutions
find alternative ways to prevent and control the spread of drug addiction and dependence in
the country. These healthy alternatives are effective strategies to educate, advocate and
promote a drug free-community and instill in our youth that drugs are not good and will only
destroy their lives and that their family and community

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 Assessment: (Post-Test)
Multiple Choice: Encircle the answer of your choice.
1. This is the best way for people to avoid the use and abuse of drugs?
a. Prevention c. Control
b. Cure d. All of the above
2. These are helpful skills that will enable a person to say No?
a. Control c. Decision-making
b. Resistance skills d. All of the above
3. It is identifying and choosing alternative ways?
a. Resistance skills c. decision-making
b.Control d. All of the above
4. The following are various modes of treating drug dependents except one.
a. Eclectic Approach c. Therapeutic Approach
b.Spiritual Approach d. Voluntary
5. Among the choices provided which one that can be used to develop resistance skills.
a. Give confidence in saying No to drugs
c. Be friends with drug users
d. Do not have confidence in saying No to drugs
e. Lack of self confidence
6. The following are healthy alternative ways in prevention of drugs except one
a. Go with friends always
b.Eat , exercise, and sleep in time
c.Always be with bad influence friends
d.Skip meals and sleep
7. The drug dependent decides on his/her own to be examined and admitted.
a.Compulsory confinement
b.Voluntary thru representations
c.Voluntary
d.All of the above
8. This approach uses Bible teachings as a source of inspiration to change drug
dependents
a. Eclectic approach
b. Therapeutic approach
c. Hazelden-Minnesotta Model
d. Spiritual approach

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 Key to Answers

1. a
2. b
3. c
4. d
5. a
6. b
7. c
8. d

References
• https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
• https://www.google.com/search?bih=657&biw=1349&sxsrf=ALeKk02v_GWhb62
D3iFQcObzbh-
_InOJug:1590129555818&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=shabu+drugs&hl=en&sa=
X&ved=2ahUKEwiF1cia7sbpAhUnG6YKHZPnChgQsAR6BAgIEAE
• https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/cocaine
• https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/heroin/what-heroin
• https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/opium/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide
•

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