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