DRUG EDUCATION  Directions

What is Drug Education?  Dosage

 Is a learning process that influence

an individual emotionally,
intellectually, psychologically and
socially, and may result in the
modification of the attitudes that
influence behavior.
Republic Act No. 9165

"Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002"

 AN ACT INSTITUTING THE

COMPREHENSIVE DANGEROUS
DRUGS ACT OF 2002, REPEALING Categories of Drugs
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6425, The Prescriptive Drugs
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE
DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT OF 1972,  Are commercially produced drugs
AS AMENDED, PROVIDING FUNDS that can be legally sold or dispensed
THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER only by a physician. They are likely
PURPOSES. over the counter drugs in that they
are manufactured but
What is Drugs? pharmaceutical companies, but they
 Any substance that prevents or cure differ in that, the decision to use the
diseases, or enhances physical or drugs is legally vested in a licensed
mental welfare. physician not in the user.
 Any chemical agent that alters the Over-the-Counter Drugs (OTC)
biochemical or physiological
processes of tissues or organisms.  Are commercially produced drugs
that may be purchased legally
Two types of Drugs without prescription.
Legal Drugs & Illegal Drugs Herbal Drugs
What are the information found in the  Are plant substance that have drug
Legal Drug Label? effects whose use is not generally
Information’s found in the Drug Label regulated by the law.
 These substances require little
 Medicinal ingredients processing after the plants are
 Non-medicinal ingredients use gathered.
 Warnings
 Cautions
Illicit Drugs
 Are drugs whose sale, purchase or
use generally prohibited by law.
Criminal penalties usually apply to
violators of these law.
Prescription of Drugs
Substance misuse
is classified as either intentional or
unintentional use of a substance.
Substance abuse
is an intentional pattern of harmful use of
any substance for mood altering purposes.
NOTE: the sustained use of psychoactive
substances can lead to dependence
syndrome.
How Drugs works?
Minimal Dose
 the amount needed to treat or to
heal, that is, the smallest amount of
a drug that will produce a
therapeutic effect.
Maximal Dose
 the largest amount of a drug that
will produce a desired therapeutic
effect, without any accompanying
symptoms of toxicity.
Toxic Dose
 the amount needed to produce the
side effects and action desired by an
individual who improperly uses it.
Lethal Dose
 the amount of drug that will cause
death.
How drugs are being taken or
administered?
Oral Ingestion - drug is taken by the mouth
and must pass through the stomach before
being absorbed into the blood stream.
Injection - the drug can be administered
into the body by the use of syringe or
hypodermic needle.
Inhalation - a drug in gaseous form enters
the lungs and is quickly absorbed by the
capillary system.
Buccal - drug is administered by placing it in
the buccal cavity just under the lips. The
active ingredients of the drug are absorbed
in the bloodstream through the soft tissues
lining the mouth.
Suppositories - drug is administered
through the vagina or rectum in suppository
form and drug is also absorbed into the
blood stream.

 the amount of drug that produces

untoward effects or symptoms of
poisoning.
Abusive Dose