The Social

Menace of
Drug Addiction
 Coloma (2004)
Drug Dependence is the overuse of a drug without the
regard to accept medical practice resulting in the
individual’s physical, mental, emotional or behavioral
impairment.
According to Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency

Clinical
Definition
A therapeutic
substance other than
food used in the
prevention, diagnosis,
alleviation, treatment,
or cure of disease in
humans or animals
According to Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency

General
Definition
A substance aside from
food intended to affect
the structure of
function of a
physiological system
like the human body.
According to Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency

Popular
Definition
Mainly to chemical or plant-
derived substances that
affects the body’s
psychological, behavioral, or
physical functions and leads
to varying degrees of
dependence or addiction
Dependency on drugs
Not having control over doing, taking, or using
something, until it becomes harmful
 Classification of
Drugs
According to Dangerous Drug Act
of 1972:
1. Prohibited Drugs – produce
psychological effects of Narcotics
or those that relieve pain and
induce sleep
2. Regulated Drugs – self-inducing
sedatives like barbiturates,
amphetamines, or other
hypnotic drugs producing same
physiological effects
COMMON DRUG TYPES
MARIJUANA
MARIJUANA

Marijuana (cannabis) refers to the dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from
the Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plant and is the most commonly used illicit
substance.
EFFECTS
• Impairment of
memory
• Impairment of
motor skills
• Premature baby
• State of anxiety
• Decreased of
sperm production
and testosterone
level
SHAB
U
Methamphetamine
 Methamphetamine HCL
“poor man’s cocaine”
Also known as shabu, ubos, siopao, sha, and ice.
It is color white, odorless crystal or crystalline powder
with a bitter, numbing taste
 ADVERSE
EFFECTS
anxiety, tension, irritability,
irrational behavior,
talkativeness, and loss of self-
control
loss appetite and inability to
sleep
euphoria
acute psychotic reactions,
violent and destructive
behavior, and recklessness that
may result in accidents
 LONG-TERM
EFFECTS
PARANOID
DELUSIONS

AUDITORY AND
VISUAL
HALLUCINATIONATI
ONS
PHYSIOLOGICAL
CHEST PAINS
EFFECTSOF
IRREGULARITY
HEARTBEAT
LOWERED OR ELEVATED
HEARTBEAT
WEIGTH LOSS
CONVULSION, AND
DEATH FROM CARDIAC
ARREST
INHALANTS
 The deliberate inhalation of violatile
chemical substance that contains
psychoactive (mind/mood-altering)
vapors causing a state of intoxication.
IMMEDIATE EFFECTS

• Confusion
• Distorted perception
of time and distance
• Aggressive
behavior/violence
• Hallucinations
• Illusions
• Nausea and
vomiting
delayed EFFECTS
• Loss of memory
• Inability to think
• Muscle cramps and
weakness
• Numbness of limbs
• Abdominal pains
• Damage to central
nervous system,
kidney, liver, and
ECSTACY
DRUGS HAVING SUCH
CHEMICAL
COMPOSITION

A GROUP OF
“DESIGNER” DRUGS
CLOSELY RELATED IN
CHEMICAL FORM TO
THE APHETAMINE
FAMILY OF ILLICIT
DRUGS
 ADVERSE EFFECTS

• Fatigue and, perhaps depression

after the drug is stopped
• Restlessness, anxiety, and
pronounced visual and auditory
hallucinations at large doses
• Nausea and vomiting
• Rise in blood pressure and heart
rate, death or heart failure or stroke
OPIATES/NARCOTICS
 Group of drugs that are used medically to
relieved pain but have high potential for
abuse. Some of it come from a resin taken
from the seed pod of the Asian poppy.
Opiates that are commonly abused are
opium, morphine, codeine and synthesized
or manufactured opiates
Opium refers to the coagulated juice of the
opium poppy and embraces every kind,
class, and character of opium, whether
crude or prepared
Opium poppy refers to any part of the plant of
the species papaver somniferum L., Papaver
setigerum DC, papaver orientale, papaver
bracteatum and Papaver rhoeas which include
the seeds, straws, branches, leaves or anypart
thereof, or any substance derived from, even
for floral, decorative, and culinary purposes
cocaine
 Erythroxylon coca
plant.
It affects the central
Nervous system as a
stimulant.
It exaggerates
changes caused by
atleast two brain
chemicals-
noradreline and
dopamine which
sedatives
 Sedative-
hypnotics such
as tranquilizers,
sleeping pills,
and sedatives
are drugs which
depress or slow
down body
functions.
steroi
ds
Used to build
muscle mass and
strength. They
typically consist of
male sex
hormones and can
be very damaging
when used
without a medical
Tobacco and Nicotine
Tobacco is often smoked in the form of cigarettes or
cigar or chewed. It contains nicotine.
 Nicotine is a stimulant and a highly addictive substance
that has been known to cause cancer and other diseases
 Nicotine works by mimicking the actions of a naturally
occurring brain chemical-acetylcholine-by docking with its
special receptor molecules
 S O N S B E H I N D
RE A
• CURIOUSITY
• SOCIAL INFLUENCE
• NEW SENSATIONS
• REBELLIONS AND
WILLINGNESS TO
TAKE RISK
• ESCAPISM
 SIGNS OF
DRUG
DEPENDENC
Y
• MOOD SWINGS
• STAYING OUT
LATE
• FREQUENT
ABSENT FROM
WORK OR
SCHOOL
• NEED OF
MONEY/ LOSS OF
MONEY
• SOCIAL
• IMPAIRED
MEMORY OR
POOR
CONCENTRATIO
N
• BLOOD-SHOT
OR GLASSY
EYES
• LOSS OF
MOTIVATION