NSTP 101.2 Flashcards
is a therapeutic substance other than food used in the prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, or cure of disease in humans or animals.
Drug
is a substance aside from food intended to affect the structure or function of a physiological system like human body.
Drug
chemical substance that affect person in such a way us to bring about physiological, emotional or behavioral change.(DDB)
Drug
it can be either natural and synthetic/ artificial.
Drug
deliberate use of medically useful drugs which have the capacity to alter mood and behavior without the prescription.
Abuse
is not having control over doing, taking, or using something until it becomes harmful
Addiction
What are 3 types of human trafficking?
The 3 most common types of human trafficking are
Sex Trafficking,
Forced Labor, and
Debt Bondage.
is the biggest sector of trafficking in the world, according to the U.S. Department of State
Forced labor, also known as involuntary servitude
What is the most abused drug in the
Philippines?
The most commonly used drug in the Philippines is a variant of methamphetamine called shabu or “poor man’s cocaine.”
An Act instituting the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, Repealing Republic Act No. 6425, otherwise known as the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972, as Amended, providing Funds therefor, and for other purposes.
Philippines (National level) Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (Republic Act No. 9165).
most prevalent factor that promt pushers and abusers alike to indulge in dangerous drugs.
POVERTY
Lack of knowledge and information about how dangerous drugs look like, their bad effect.
IGNORANCE
unhappy home, parents showing little or no interest in their children, abuses committed by parents as harsh physical punishment.
PARENTAL INFLUENCES
Drug using friends encourage, pressure even, a youth to experiment with drugs.
PEER INFLUENCES
Curiosity or the desire to experience a new state of consciousness.
Escape from physical and mental pain, relief from boredom.
PERSONALITY FACTORS
also known as “downers, are drugs which act on and depress and central nervous system causing initial relaxation and leading to drowsiness and sleep.
Ex. Narcotics, Opium, Morphine
DEPRESSANTS
also known as “Uppers”, drugs which induce alertness, wakefulness, elevated mood, increased speech , mental and motor activity.
Ex. Shabu, Cocaine, Ecstacy
STIMULANTS
Natural and syntetic psychoactive drugs that produce reactions like perceptual alterations and changes in the state of conciousness.
HALLUCINOGENS (PSYCHEDELICS)
Amphetamine was first made in
1887 in Germany
The cannabis or hemp plant originally evolved in Central Asia before people introduced the plant into Africa, Europe and eventually the Americas
MARIJUANA
methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in
Japan in 1919
was developed by a German pharmaceutical company in 1912. Originally known as “Methylsafrylaminc,” it was intended as a parent compound to synthesize medications that control bleeding, not to control appetite as is often incorrectly cited
ECSTASY
was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann. It was not until the 1880s that it started to be popularized in the medical community.
COCAINE
is the most popular abused drug in the country today. In the 1990’s, stimulant abuse emerged in many Association of southeast Asian countries. known as “shabu” which found to have harmful effects to the brain. It changes how the brain function, Studies have shown that methamphetamine abusers have reduce motor skills and impaired verbal learning as a result of
METHAMPHETAMINE
