Drug Education Flashcards
Comprise the most vulnerable group that can be affected by prohibited drugs that are commonly abused
Youth
Most drug users start?
usually during their teenage years
Why is adolescence most susceptible to drugs?
the period of experimentation ,exploration, curiosity, and search for identity.
Three aspects why youth is dragged into drug abuse
- Maybe the parents are too busy with their jobs, or not giving time to their children
- Parents have not finished schooling, making them less informed and less aware of the effects of drugs.
- The type of discipline of the parents includes physical violence, thus,in most cases in the Philippines, it drives away the kid from home.
No.1 Primary Causes and Contributory factors to Drug Abuse
Family
this is one of the Primary Causes and Contributory factors to Drug Abuse because this is where we learn and pick up our education growing up
School
This is where wrongdoings become a norm around you; Influenced by the neighborhood (Primary Causes and Contributory factors to Drug Abuse)
Community
Oversensationalization of news stories on illegal drugs and Drug abuse. (Primary Causes and Contributory factors to Drug Abuse)
Media
Some individual health conditions are usually relieved with the use of drugs. (Primary Causes and Contributory factors to Drug Abuse)
Biological Factors
Enumerate the Psychological Factors for (Primary Causes and Contributory factors to Drug Abuse)
- Low self-esteem and poor self-image
- Need for acceptance or belonging
- Feeling for more freedom and autonomy
- Escape from reality
- Mental problem
- Attention getting
- Over domineering parents;
- Lack of parental concerns and closeness;
- Parental permissiveness;
- Rejection by the parents;
Parental Negligence
Primary Causes and Contributory
factors to Drug Abuse because of what is happening to our society
Sociological Factors
the drug becomes the main focus of his life
Drug Dependence
The human body becomes used to the
presence of the drug. The body begins to need it as much as it needs food.
Physical Dependence
Define Psychological Dependence
The drug abuser is convinced in his mind that he needs the drug.
The drug abuser feels he cannot be happy or satisfied without drug, which has become very important part of his life.
What phase of drug dependence uses drugs for the first time; curiosity
Experimentation Phase
Define Occasional or Social Use
Teenagers assured by their drug-using friends that the unpleasant effects are normal and would pass away, decide
to continue using drugs.
The use becomes more and more
frequent with the result that the user’s tolerance dramatically increases.
Regular Use
Define Drug Dependence
The user no longer takes the drug every now and then but uses them day by-day.
A chemical substance that brings about
physical, emotional, or behavioral change in a person taking it.; illicit or licit
Drug
How are drugs taken?
a. Ingestion
b. Inhalation
c. Injection
d. Used as suppository
e. Applied topically
____ is the use of chemical substances, licit or illicit, which results in an individual’s physical, mental or social impairment.
Drug Abuse
Hallucinogens
Drugs affect sensation, thinking, self-awareness, and emotion; Psychedelic
Stimulants Drugs
increase alertness and physical disposition
