DRUG USE

IMPROVES
BRAIN
FUNCTIONS
.
BLUFF
• The human brain is the most complex organ in the
body.
• This three-pound mass of gray and white sits at the
center of all human activity.
• The brain regulates your body’s functions; enables
you to interpret and respond to everything you
experience; and shapes your thoughts, emotions,
and behavior.
• Drugs are chemicals that affect the brain by tapping
into its communication system and interfering with
the way neurons normally send, receive, and process
information.
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is why people who
who use usemay
drugs drugs may hear
unreal voices,
hear unreal sees
voices, sees unreal things,
unreal things, and and does
does strange things unconsciously.
strange things unconsciously.

• Drugs damage the brain tissues which

• Drugs
lead to damage the brain
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brain.
DRUGS DO
NOT IMPROVE
DIGESTION
OF FOODS.
FACT
• Any form of drug taken by
mouth may affect the
digestive system.
• These include prescribed
(those ordered by a doctor and
dispensed by a pharmacist)
and non-prescribed or over-
the-counter (OTC) products.
• Once the drug enters the bloodstream,
the liver converts the drug into
chemicals the body can use and removes
toxic chemicals that other organs cannot
tolerate.

• Drugs are disastrous to the digestive

tract and are therefore do not improve
digestion.
 DRUGS CAN MAKE A
PERSON BOLDER AND
BRAVER.
BLUFF
• Drugs alter the brain function of a person.
• As a result the person tends to develop poor
brain functioning.
• This causes the drug user to engage him to life-
threatening situations because he has poor
decision-making skills.
• Psychologically, a person who often use drugs are not
considered bold and brave, instead, they are considered
persons with mental deficiencies because of manifestations
of insanity.
 TAKING IN DRUGS IS
ONE WAY OF PLEASING
FRIENDS.
BLUFF
• Peer pressure is one of the major reasons of why person take in
drugs.
• However, a drug educated person needs to remember that true
friends are those who can provide positive influences to peers.
• They don’t bother forcing a person to take in drugs just to attest
the person’s loyalty in the friendship.
• Any friend who encourages you to try in taking drugs
is bad influence.
• You have to look for other friends who can support
you with your good plans in life.
TAKING IN
DRUGS
SUFFICE
CURIOSITY.
BLUFF
•Curiosity is one of the major factors of why a person
engages himself to drugs.
•However, a drug educated person knows different
ways of looking the effects of drugs to the body.
•He can look for documentary videos on youtube about
the nature of drugs and what is does in the body.
•It is a shame for an educated person to take in drugs
when in the first place, he already knows what
harmful effects it can make to his body,
family relations, school performance,
and to the community.
DRUG SELLING IS
THE EASIEST WAY
OF GETTING
MONEY.
BLUFF
• Selling drugs is never a solution for
poverty. It against the religion due to its
destructive nature and at the same time
against the law.

• An educated person is that who

continuously living a progressive life
without any intention of destructing
oneself, family, school, and community.
TAKING DRUGS
DOES NOT
REMOVE LIFE’S
PROBLEMS AND
WORRIES.
FACT
•Drugs does not remove life’s problems and worries,
instead, they worsen them.
•An educated person should never think of using drugs to
eliminate problems and worries since he is already aware
how destructive drugs are in the body, family, school,
and community.
•With God’s guidance, he knows how to
look for strategic ways in finding
solutions to the problems and worries
encountered.
DRUGS DO
NOT
IMPROVE
SPORTS
PERFORMAN
FACT
•Drugs are chemicals that alter body
functions. It destroys the body which
does not improve sports performance.

•Athletes who use drugs to boost sports

performances failed to win in the game
since they suffer from abnormal
functions of the body parts.
•A good athlete never bothers to
use drug as sports performance
enhancer because best sports
performance is brought by best
and consistent practice of
techniques of playing the sport.
 FILIPINO MALES
ARE MORE PRONE
TO DRUG USE
THAN FEMALES.
FACT
•According to a study conducted by the
Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) in
2008, the ratio of Filipino male users to
female users is 10:1. This means that
Filipino males are more prone to drug
use than females.
ALL
MEDICINE
S ARE
FACT
• Medicines are drugs.
Medicines are drugs which
help treat, ease, and
prevent diseases and
disorders.
• Improper use or misuse of
medicines can lead to drug
abuse and addiction.
• Some drugs have no
medicinal purposes, are
habit-forming and can lead
to illnesses and even death.