Professional Documents
Culture Documents
September 9, 2017
Mati Davao Oriental
and Vice Control
DRUGS
a chemical substance that brings about
physical, physiological, behavioral or physical
change In a person taking it.
any substance other than food, that when inhaled,
injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on
the skin or dissolved under the tongue causes a
physiological change in the body.
Maximal Dose Ø the largest quantity of a drug that an adult can safely take
within a given period.
Toxic Dose Ø the amount of a substance that may be expected to
produce a toxic effect.
Abusive Dose Ø the amount needed to produce the side effects and action
desired by an individual who improperly use it.
v Floaters or “Chippers”
Physical Dependence ØIt is the result when a drug has been used
for a long period of time. It is only
identified when a characteristics
withdrawal or abstinence syndrome occurs
after its use is discontinued
Examination of Drugs
Presumptive/Screening tests
Ø are less precise and indicate that an illegal substance
may be present
Ø may be conducted in the field by law enforcement
officers or in the laboratory once the seized material is
accepted.
P-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde,
VanUrk LSD will turn the solution blue-purple.
hydrochloric acid, ethyl alcohol
Duquenois- Vanillin, acetaldehyde, ethyl Marijuana will turn the solution purple.
Levine Test alcohol, chloroform
Cannabis Sativa L
Ø also known as marijuana
Ø appears naturally in many tropical and
humid parts of the world. Sacred tree by
Assyrians
Ø first classified by Carl Linnaeus in 1753
Ø 9- 15 weeks flowering cycle
Ø requires more than 12–13 hours of
light per day to stay vegetative.
Ø Tobacco-like greenish or brownish material
consisting of the dried flowering, fruiting
tops and leaves of the plant.
Ø Tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta 9-THC) – the principal psychoactive
constituent of cannabis.
Ø Street names- MJ, Mary jane, Pot, Weed, Dope, Joint, Skunk, Ashes, Ganja,
Grass, Boom, Blaze, Hay, Block, Burnie, Stinkweed.
Methods of Abuse
Ø Smoked
Ø intravenously injected
Ø or taken in pill form.
Methods of Abuse
Ø intravenously injected
Ø or taken in pill form.
Ø Discovered by a German pharmacist name
Friedrich Serturner.
Methods of Abuse
Ø Rubbing to gums
Ø Injection
Ø Snorting
Ø Smoke (Freebase Cocaine)
Ø STREET NAMES - Blow, Coke, Crack, Rock, Snow
Coca Paste
v PSILOCYBIN
effects include euphoria, visual and mental hallucinations,
changes in perception, a distorted sense of time, and
spiritual experiences.
v IBOGAINE
Patterns of Abuse
(Excerpts from the NCADI document on Methamphetamine)
Rush (5-30 minutes)
High (4-16 hours)
Binge (3-15 days)
Tweaking
Crash (1-3 days)
Normal (2-14 days)
Withdrawal (30-90 days)
vCaffeine
Ø A stimulant found in coffee.
vNicotine
Ø An Addictive substance usually
obtained from cigarette smoking.
Depressants (Downers)
Ø Drugs which depress or lower the functions of the
Central Nervous System.
v Alcohol
Ø Fermented or distilled liquids or drugs
containing ethanol and intoxicating
substances
v Sedatives and Hypnotics
Ø Calm the nerves, reduce tension, and
induce sleep
Inhalants
Ø Liquid, solid or mixed substance that has property of releasing toxic
(psychoactive) vapors fumes.
Ø effects includes slurred speech, lack of
coordination, euphoria, and dizziness.
Ø Solvents, aerosols, etc.
Ecstasy/Molly (Methylenedioxy-methamphetamine)
2. Ignorance
Lack of knowledge and information about how dangerous drugs look
like.
3. Loss of Family Values and Solidarity
Parents who are
busybodies, neglect their
children.
4. Fitting in
This is most common reason among
young adults and teenagers. They
start to use drugs because they want
to fit in. Being rebellious as a teenager
or young adult is very common. In a
lot of cases, young adults and
teenagers don’t fully understand the
severity of drug use and addiction.
5. Depression
Many people who struggle
with depression do not get
proper treatment or diagnosis
for this problem. Those
struggling with depression
tend to self-medicate to
handle the symptoms of
depression
6. Peer Pressure
This is most common reason among
young adults and teenagers. They
start to use drugs because they want
to fit in. Being rebellious as a
teenager or young adult is very
common.
7.Legality
Nicotine and Alcohol are legal
and loosely regulated to prevent
addiction. Those who tend to
abuse these substances use
them to self-medicate for
anxiety, trauma and/or stress.
8. TO FEEL GOOD
People start to abuse drugs and alcohol because
they want to feel better than they do.
9. Experimenting
Mind-altering substance, like Cocaine and Alcohol, promise to
heighten experience and that experience is worth exploring.
10. Self-medicating
Self-medicating is the top reason people abuse drugs and Alcohol.
Stress, anxiety, reoccurring pain, undiagnosed mental illnesses,
severe depression, loneliness, trauma; these are all reasons why
people would self-medicate with mind-altering substances to cope
with what they are feeling or what they do not want to feel.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9165
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.
Deliver
- Any act of knowingly passing a dangerous drug to another, personally or
otherwise, and by any means, with or without consideration.
Den, Dive or Resort.
- A place where any dangerous drug and/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 the use of prescription.
Laboratory Equipment
- The paraphernalia, apparatus, materials or appliances when used, intended for use or
designed for use in the manufacture of any dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor
and essential chemical, such as reaction vessel, preparative/purifying equipment,
fermentors, separatory funnel, flask, heating mantle, gas generator, or their substitute.
Protector/Coddler
- Any person who knowingly and willfully consents to the unlawful acts provided for in
this Act and uses his/her influence, power or position in shielding, harboring,
screening or facilitating the escape of any person he/she knows, or has reasonable
grounds to believe on or suspects, has violated the provisions of this Act in order to
prevent the arrest, prosecution and conviction of the violator.
Pusher
- Any person who sells, trades, administers, dispenses, delivers or gives away to another,
on any terms whatsoever, or distributes, dispatches in transit or transports dangerous
drugs or who acts as a broker in any of such transactions, in violation of this Act.
UNLAWFUL ACTS AND PENALTIES
Section 4
Ø any person, who, unless authorized by law, shall import or bring into
the Philippines any dangerous drug, regardless of the quantity and
purity involved, including any and all species of opium poppy or any
part thereof or substances derived therefrom even for floral,
decorative and culinary purposes.
Penalty
Ø Life Imprisonment to Death
fine
Ø Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) to Ten million
pesos (P10,000,000.00)
Section 5
Ø Sale, Trading, Administration, Dispensation, Delivery, Distribution, and
Transportation of Dangerous Drugs and or Controlled Precursors and
Essential Chemicals.
Penalty
Ø Life imprisonment to death
fine
ØFive hundred thousand pesos
(P500,000.00) to Ten million pesos
(P10,000,000.00)
Section 6 Maintenance of a Den, Dive or Resort.
- any person or group of persons
who shall maintain a den, dive or
resort where any dangerous drug is
used or sold in any form.
Penalty
- imprisonment ranging from
twelve (12) years and one (1) day
to twenty (20) years
fine
- Oundred thousand pesos
(P100,000.00) to Five hundred
thousand pesos (P500,000.00).
Section 11 Possession of Dangerous Drugs
Ø 50 grams or more of methamphetamine hydrochloride
(shabu)
Ø 500 grams or more of marijuana
Ø 10 grams or more of opium, morphine, heroine,
cocaine, marijuana resin, or marijuana resin oil MDMA
(ecstasy) and LSD
ØP 500,000 to P 10,000,000
q Possession of 5 grams or more but less than 10 grams of
shabu or 300 grams or more but less than 500 grams of
marijuana
Ø Imprisonment of 20 yrs & 1 day to Life.
Ø P 400,000 to P 500,000
q Possession of less than 5 grams of shabu or less than
300 grams of marijuana
Ø P 300,000 to P 400,000
Use of Dangerous Drugs
Ø P 50,000 to P 200,000
Cultivation or culture of plants classified
as dangerous drugs
Ø P 500,000 to P 10,000,000
Section 20
Ø Confiscation and Forfeiture of the
Proceeds or Instruments of the
Unlawful Act, Including the
Properties or Proceeds Derived from
the Illegal Trafficking of Dangerous
Drugs and/or Precursors and
Essential Chemicals.
The illegal drug trade may be estimated as nearly 1% of total global trade.
Consumption of illegal drugs is widespread globally.
Drug Cartel
Ø any criminal organization
with the intention of
supplying drug trafficking
operations. They range from
loosely managed
agreements among
various drug traffickers to
formalized commercial
enterprises.
Golden Triangle
• Myanmar
• Laos
• Thailand
• Afghanistan
• Iran
• Pakistan
Juárez Cartel
Ø one of several drug trafficking organizations that have
been known to decapitate their rivals, mutilate their
corpses and dump them in public places to instill fear
not only into the general public.
Gulf Cartel
Ø one of the oldest organized crime groups in Mexico.
NYC 448-7330
AARON N. AQUINO
Director General
PDEA Secretary
Agency/Organization Ex-Officio Members Permanent Representatives
- Charles Darwin -
VICE
Alcoholic
Ø A person who has experienced physical,
psychological, social or occupational
impairment as a consequences of habitual,
excessive consumption of alcohol.
Alcohol Abuse
Ø Use of ethyl alcohol or liquor in a quantity and
with a frequency that causes the individual
significant physiological, psychological or
sociological distress or impairment.
Main Types of Alcohol
vIsopropyl Alcohol (isopropanol or 2-propanol)
Ø Produced by combining water and propylene,
rubbing alcohol works well for sterilization.
Ø It is a colorless, flammable chemical compound
with a strong odor.
Blood Tests
Ømeasures the amount of alcohol(ethanol)
in your body. The amount of alcohol in
the blood reaches its highest level about an
hour after drinking.
Urine Tests
Ø is the least reliable method of testing for
blood alcohol content.
Ø are less accurate than breath and
blood tests, and tend to be used only
when other tests are not available.
Prostitution Ø Prostitution is not sex. It’s a sexual
services or describes the offering and
provision of sexual services for financial
gain.
v Influence of contraceptives
Types of prostitutes
v Call girl
Ø receives telephone calls from the selected
group of customers and makes arrangements
to meet them at a designated place.
v Hustler
: Ø Bar or tavern ‘’pick-up’’- frequent places
where liquor is sold, sometimes with the
knowledge of the management.
v Street walker
Ø Occasional and
selective prostitutes
usually a new
corner to the sex
trade.
v Factory girl Ø works in regular house of prostitution.
v TYPES:
Ø PROHIBITED BY LAW
Ø REGULATED BY LAW
v TAKSI v HANTAK v POOL
v BETTING ON
SPORTS v MAHJONG
Bettor ("Mananaya", "Tayador")
Ø Any person who places bets for himself/herself or in
behalf of another person, or any person, other than the
personnel or staff of any illegal numbers game
operation.
Protector or Coddler
Ø Any person who lends or provides protection, or
receives benefits in any manner in the operation of any
illegal numbers game.
P. D. 1602 Prescribing Stiffer Penalties On Illegal
Gambling
R. A. 9287 AN ACT INCREASING THE PENALTIES FOR
ILLEGAL NUMBERS GAMES, AMENDING CERTAIN
PROVISIONS OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1602,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.