Awareness on Drugs‼
Factors influencing drug use and abuse
Peer pressure
The longing for intense feelings and pleasure
Lack of supervision and support from family
For relief from anxiety, depression, and stress
Curiosity
Drug use
Drugs
a substance that changes a person physically, mentally, and emotionally
taking medicine properly and in correct dosage
Goal of education
prevent children and youth from the use of drugs
Why are drugs misused?
Taking drugs out of anger
Changing the way drugs are taken
Acquiring drugs from unreliable sources
Taking more than the dosage prescribed
Not taking medicine according to prescription
Drug substance abuse
improperly and unnecessarily using a chemical substance/s with no medical purpose
Drug misuse
the improper use of drugs
Drug tolerance
is when the body is already used to drugs and desires for more for the effect
Drug dependence
is when it is already to a person's habit to consume drugs that they rely on them to function normally
Drug withdrawal
is when a person's body is already used to drugs and reacts unpleasantly when they try to stop consuming them