VICE AND DRUG

EDUCATION
AND CONTROL
- July Jean L. Solis, RCrim
Prelim…
Definition Of Terms
For a better understanding of this
subject, next are the terms we will
face from the first up to the last
topic, along with their definitions.
Abuse
- usually refers to illegal drugs but may also be applicable to drugs that are available legally, such as prescribed medications and
certain over-the counter medications.

Abusive dose
– amount needed to produce the side effects and action desired by the individual who improperly uses it.

Administer
- Any act of introducing any dangerous drug into the body of any person, with or without his/her knowledge, by injection, inhalation,
ingestion or other means, or of committing any act of indispensable assistance to a person in administering a dangerous drug to
himself/herself unless administered by a duly licensed practitioner for purposes of medication.

Alcohol
– regarded by many experts as the most commonly-abused drug.

Alcoholism
- refers to the state or condition of a person produced by drinking intoxicating liquors excessively and with habitual frequency.

Association
- is the tendency of a drug abuser to look for peer groups where he feels being wanted and accepted.
Board
– Refers to the Dangerous Drugs Board.

Buccal
- the drug is administered by placing it in the buccal cavity just under the lips. The active ingredients of the drug are absorbed into
the bloodstream through the soft tissues lining the mouth.

Call Girl
- is a part-time prostitute who have her own legitimate work or profession, but works as prostitute to augment her income.

Cannabis
- or commonly known as “Marijuana” or "Indian Hemp” or by its any other name. - Embraces every kind, class, genus, or specie of
the plant Cannabis sativa L. including, but not limited to, Cannabis americana, hashish, bhang, guaza, churrus and ganjab, and
embraces every kind, class and character of marijuana, whether dried or fresh and flowering, flowering or fruiting tops, or any
part or portion of the plant and seeds thereof, and all its geographic varieties, whether as a reefer, resin, extract, tincture or in
any form whatsoever.

Centers.
- Any of the treatment and rehabilitation centers for drug dependents referred to in Section 34, Article VIII of this Act.
Chance of Hazard
- is the uncertainty of the result of the game when the outcome of the game is incapable of calculation by human reason,
foresight, capacity or design.

Chemical Diversion
- refers to the sale, distribution, supply or transport of legitimately imported, in-transit, manufactured or procured controlled
precursors and essential chemicals, in diluted, mixtures or in concentrated form, to any person or entity engaged in the
manufacture of any dangerous drug, and shall include packaging, repackaging, labeling, relabeling or concealment of such
transaction through fraud, destruction of documents, fraudulent use of permits, misdeclaration, use of front companies or mail
fraud.

Chromatography
- is the process of separating mixture and comparing the migration of each component with standard .

Clandestine Laboratory
- Any facility used for the illegal manufacture of any dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and - essential chemical.

Confirmatory Test
- An analytical test using a device, tool or equipment with a different chemical or physical principle that is more specific which
will validate and confirm the result of the screening test.
Controlled Delivery
- The investigative technique of allowing an unlawful or suspect consignment of any dangerous drug and/ or controlled
precursor and essential chemical, equipment or paraphernalia, or property believed to be derived directly or indirectly from
any offense, to pass into, through or out of the country under the supervision of an authorized officer, with a view to gathering
evidence to identify any person involved in any dangerous drugs related offense, or to facilitate prosecution of that offense.

Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals.

- Include those listed in Tables I and II of the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances as enumerated in the attached annex, which is an integral part of this Act.

Cultivate or Culture
- Any act of knowingly planting, growing, raising, or permitting the planting, growing or raising of any plant which is the source
of a dangerous drug.

Dangerous Drugs
- Include those listed in the Schedules annexed to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the 1972
Protocol, and in the Schedules annexed to the 1971 Single Convention on Psychotropic Substances as enumerated in the
attached annex which is an integral part of this Act.
Dangerous Drugs Board
- is a Philippine government agency that makes policies, strategies and programs on drug prevention and control.

Depressants
- these are drugs which decrease or depress body functions and nerve activity. These group includes sedatives, hypnotics and
tranquilizers.

Door Knocker
- This is an occasional or selective type of prostitute who is usually a new comer in the business.

Drug
- is any chemical substance that by virtue of its chemical nature alters the structure and functioning of a living organism.

Drug addiction
- refers to a state of periodic or chronic intoxication produced by the repeated consumption of a drug – natural or synthetic.
Deliver
- Any act of knowingly passing a another, personally or otherwise, and by any means, with or without consideration.

Den, Dive or Resort

- A place where any dangerous drug and/ Den, Dive or Resort. or controlled precursor and essential chemical is administered,
delivered, stored for illegal purposes, distributed, sold or used in any form.

Designer drugs
- are substance chemically related to but slightly different from controlled substances. Designer drugs are designed by
clandestine chemists with the aim to manufacture compounds that produce "the high” or euphoria of parent drugs and avoid
the penalties that would be levied against those illegally trafficking the controlled substance.

Dispense
- Any act of giving away, selling or distributing medicine or any dangerous drug with or without the use of prescription.

Drug abuse
- refers to non-medical use of drugs that cause physical, psychological, legal; economic, or social damage to the user or to
people affected by the user's behavior.
Drug Dependence
- is a state of psychic or physical dependence or both, on a drug arising in a person following administration of drugs on a
periodic or continuous basis.

Drug Syndicate
- Any organized group of two (2) or more persons forming or joining together with the intention of committing any offense
prescribed under this Act.

Employee of Den, Dive or Resort

- The caretaker, helper, Employee of Den, Dive or Resort. watchman, lookout, and other persons working in the den, dive or
resort, employed by the maintainer, owner and/or operator where any dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and
essential chemical is administered, delivered, distributed, sold or used, with or without compensation, in connection with the
operation thereof.

Experimentation
- is the tendency of a person to try and explore the effects of drugs due to curiosity or other reasons.

Factory Girl
- This type of prostitute is the real professional type who works in regular house of prostitution.
Fermentation
- is a process that uses yeast or bacteria to change the sugars in the food into alcohol. Fermentation is used to produce many
necessary items.

Financier
- Any person who pays for, raises or supplies money for, or underwrites any of the illegal activities prescribed under this Act.

Gambling
- is a game or scheme wherein the result of which depends wholly or chiefly upon chance or hazard.

Golden Triangle
- which is composed of three (3) countries namely: (1) Burma/Myanmar, (2) Laos, and (3) Thailand.

Golden Crescent
- which is composed of: (1) Iran, (2) Afghanistan, (3) Pakistan, and (4) India..

Hallucinogens
- these are drugs capable of provoking sensation, thinking, self-awareness and emotion.

Herbal drugs
- these are plant substances that have drug effect and whose use is not generally regulated by law. These substances generally
require little processing after the plants are gathered.
Hustler
- This is a professional type of prostitute who works at a or tavern. She is also a pick-up girl or a street-walker.

Illegal Trafficking
- The illegal cultivation, culture, delivery, Illegal Trafficking. sale, manufacture, administration, dispensation, and of any
dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and essential transportation, distribution, importation, exportation chemical.

Illicit drugs
- these are drugs whose sale, purchase or use is generally prohibited by law.

Inhalants
- these are any liquid, solid or mixed substance that has the property of releasing toxic (psychoactive) vapors or fumes.

Inhalation
- a drug in gaseous form enters the lungs and is quickly absorbed by the capillary system.

Injection
- drug can be administered into the body by the use of a syringe or hypodermic needle.

Instrument
- Anything that is used in or intended to be used in any manner in the commission of illegal drug trafficking or related offenses.
Laboratory Equipment
- the paraphernalia, apparatus, materials or appliances when used, intended for use or designed for use in the manufacture of
any dangerous drug.

Manufacture
- the production, preparation, compounding or processing of any dangerous drug.

Marijuana Eradication
- involves the location and destruction of Marijuana plantations, including the identification, arrest and prosecution of the
planter, owner or cultivator, and the escheating of the land where the plantations are located.

Maximal dose
- largest amount of a drug that will produce a desired therapeutic effect without any accompanying symptoms of toxicity.

Methamphetamine Hydrochloride
- or commonly known as "Shabu", "Ice", “Meth", or by its any other name. - Refers to the drug having such chemical composition,
including any of its isomers or derivatives in any form.

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
- known as "Ecstasy", or by its any other name. - refers to the drug or commonly having such chemical composition, including
any of its isomers or derivatives in any form.
Minimal dose
- amount needed to treat or heal, that is, the smallest amount of a drug that will produce a therapeutic effect.

Narcotics substance
- (derived from the “Greek word” narkotikos”- meaning "sleep" Any drug that produces sleep or stupor and also relieves pain
(medical); Depress the central nervous system to produce a marked reduction in sensitivity to pain, create drowsiness and
reduce physical activity.

Opium
- refers to the coagulated juice of the opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum) and embraces every kind, class and character of
opium.

Opium Poppy
- refers to any part of the plant of the species Papaver bracteatum and Papaver rhoeas, which includes the seeds, Papaver
somniferum L., Papaver setigerum DC, Papaver orientale, straws, branches, leaves or any part thereof, or substances derived
therefrom, even for floral, decorative and culinary purposes.

Oral Ingestion
- drug is taken by the mouth and must pass through the stomach before being absorbed into the bloodstream. This is one of the
most common ways of taking a drug.
Over-the-counter drugs
- these are commercially-produced drugs that may be purchased legally without prescription.

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency(PDEA)

- (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Pilipinas Laban sa Droga) is the lead anti-drugs law enforcement agency, responsible for preventing,
investigating and combating any dangerous drugs, controlled precursors and essential chemicals within the Philippines. The
agency is tasked with the enforcement of the penal and regulatory provisions of Republic Act No. 9165 (R.A. 9165), otherwise
known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. PDEA is under the supervision of the Office of the President. PDEA is
the implementing arm of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB).

Physical dependence
- is the result when a drug has been used for a long period of time. It is only identified when a characteristics withdrawal or
abstinence syndrome occurs after its use is discontinued. The body’s physical system changes until the body needs that
particular drug in order to function.

Planting of Evidence
- the willful act by any person of maliciously and surreptitiously inserting, placing, adding or attaching directly or indirectly,
through any overt or covert act, whatever quantity of any dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and essential chemical
in the person, house, effects or in the immediate vicinity of an innocent individual for the purpose of implicating, incriminating
or imputing the commission of any violation of this Act.
Practitioner
- any person who is a licensed physician, dentist, chemist, medical technologist, nurse, midwife, veterinarian or pharmacist in
the Philippines.

Prescription abuse
- refers to the improper utilization of controlled substance prescribed by the physicians to the patient under treatments with
medical problem. Any drug not used according to directions, whether prescribed by a physician or over the counter
medication, can be substance abuse. Using a prescription in a manner not prescribed, for using another's prescription is
illegal.

Prohibited drug
- which includes opium and its active components and derivatives, such as heroin and morphine; coca leaf and its derivatives,
principally cocaine; alpha and beta eucaine; hallucinogenic drugs, such as mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and
other substances producing similar effects; Indian hemp and its derivatives, all preparations made from any of the foregoing;
and other drugs and chemical preparations, whether natural or synthetic, with the physiological effects of a narcotic or a
hallucinogenic drug; or (As amended by B.P. 179 dated March 2, 1982)

Prostitution
- is an act or practice of a woman who engages or habitually indulged in sexual intercourse for money or profit.
Prostitute
- is any woman who engages herself in indiscriminate sexual intercourse or acts with males for hire.

Protector/Coddler
- any person who knowingly and willfully consents to the unlawful acts provided for in this Act and uses his/her influence, power
or position in shielding, harboring, screening or facilitating the escape of any person he/she knows, or has reasonable grounds
to believe on or suspects has violated the provisions of this act in order to prevent the arrest, prosecution and conviction of the
violation.

Psychological dependence
- refers to a state in which an individual has a compulsion to take a drug, but one in which there may not be a physical
dependence.

Psychotropic substances
- any substance, natural or synthetic or any natural material that have a high potential for dependence and abuse. These drugs
are highly addictive but, despite the risk, they remain in medical use because no satisfactory non-addictive alternative
medication is available.

Pusher
- any person who sells, trades, administers, dispenses, delivers or gives away to another, on any terms whatsoever, or distributes,
dispatches in transit or transports dangerous drugs or who acts as a broker in any of such transactions, in violation of this Act.
Regulated Drug
- which includes self-inducing sedatives, such as secobarbital, Phenobarbital, pentobarbital, such as secobarbital, barbital,
amobarbital and any other drug which contains a salt or a derivative of a salt of barbituric acid; any salt, isomer or salt of an
isomer, of amphetamine, such as Benzedrine or Dexedrine, or any drug which produces a physiological action similar to
amphetamine; and hypnotic drugs, such as methaqualone, nitrazepam or any other compound producing similar physiological
effects; (As amended by PD No. 1683 dated March 14, 1980)

Rehabilitation
- is the outcome of treatment that refers to the reinstatement or recovery of a previous level of functioning - social, emotional,
physical and economic aspects of a drug dependent.

Screening Test
- A rapid test performed to establish potential/ presumptive positive result

Sell
- Any act of giving away any dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and essential chemical whether for money or any
other consideration.

Sedatives and Hypnotics

- are two classes of prescription drugs that are commonly called “tranquilizers,” “sleeping pills,” or “sedatives.” They affect
your central nervous system, your brain and spinal cord and have a relaxing, calming effect.
Stimulants (uppers)
- are drugs which increase alertness of physical disposition. They also reduce hunger and provide a feeling of well being. They
produce the opposite to that of depressants. Instead of bringing about relaxation and sleep, they produce increased mental
alertness, wakefulness, reduce hunger, and provide a feeling of well being. Cocaine and Amphetamines are the most common
stimulants.

Suppositories
- the drug is administered through the vagina or rectum in suppository form and the drug is also absorbed into the
bloodstream.

Trading
- Transactions involving the illegal trafficking of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and essential chemicals using
electronic devices.

Tranquilizers
- are drugs used in treating nervous disorders or calm psychotic patients or mental disorders without producing sleep.
Prolonged use may result to dependence both physical and psychological.

Treatment
- is the method that refers to all methods and techniques utilized to help an individual to overcome some deficit or impairment.
Vice
- may be defined as any immoral conduct or habit, the corruption. indulgence of which leads to depravity, wickedness or
corruption.

Volatile Substance
- Liquid, solid or mixed substances having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes or any chemical substance which
when sniffed, smelled, inhaled, or introduced into the physiological system of the body produce/induce a condition of
intoxication, inebriation, excitement, stupefaction, etc.

White Slavery
- is the procurement and transportation of women across satellite for immoral purpose.

Withdrawal of symptoms
- may refer to a characteristic reactions and behavior of varying intensity, depending on the amount of the drug taken and
length of time used which ensue upon abrupt cessation of a drug upon the body.
What is VICE ???
Vice can refer to a fault, a
negative character trait, a defect,
an infirmity, or a bad or unhealthy
habit.
What is Drug Education ???
Drug education usually focuses on influencing
students’ values, attitudes, knowledge and skills so they
make healthier decisions about alcohol and other drugs.
 History of Drug Abuse
Old Stone Age Religious Rituals Opium

Incas of South America Cannabis World War 1 & 2

The Global Drug Situation
Golden Triangle Golden Crescent
The World’s drug scene
Middle East Spain

South America Mexico

The World’s drug scene
Philippines India

Indonesia Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand

The World’s drug scene
China Hong Kong

Japan
 The Organized Crime Groups
Behind the Global Drug Scene

The Columbian Medellin Cartel The Cali Cartel

The Chinese Triad

END OF PRELIM…