AVOIDING FURTHER DAMAGE: Awareness Conference about Drugs

A Concept Paper Submitted to the Faculty of Senior High School Department

Tagaytay City Science National High School

Sungay West, Tagaytay City

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

In English for Academic and Professional Purposes

Angeles, Shane
Arias, Patricia Anne
Barrientos, Demi
Malabanan, Raymund
Matabang, Edward
Sabale, Naomi
Sarmiento, Carl
Simbulan, Bea
Villasencio, Vince

September 2019
Introduction

Drug abuse is primarily a problem of the youth. These youth become drug abusers

because their family, community and country allowed these to be so. Hence, solutions lie in

the hands of the parents, teachers, civic/religious leaders, law enforcers and government

officials. Drug abuse is the repeated and excessive use of drugs. It impacts a person’s mental

as well as physical health negatively causing a major damage to the brain. Drug abuse

hampers a person’s power to practice self-control and interferes with their ability to resist the

urge to take drugs. Drugs are initially taken out of choice, however, it becomes hard to resist

them sooner than you realize. It is difficult to recover from this problem and even those who

do stand a high risk of developing it again.

Drug abuse involves compulsive and excessive intake of drugs over a period of time.

Repeated use of drugs results in developing addiction that has harmful repercussions. It is a

problem that directly impacts the structure and functioning of the brain causing grave damage

to it. Drug abuse, a term used for obsessive and excessive use of drugs, is a common problem

these days. Regular use of drugs is self-damaging. It leads to addiction and causes

behavioural changes. Drug abuse particularly impacts the brain and can also lead to other

health issues such as kidney failure and heart problem.

Everyone should get involved. Support one another to instill the basic ideals and

values that will mould our youth into responsible and caring citizens of our country. The

youth who will be our leaders of tomorrow.

Background
 Drug Free Philippines was a battlecry of Senator Tito Sotto in the year 2000. He

quoted that it is easier said that done, but definitely it can and must be done.

Our President of the Philippines, Mr. Rodrigo Duterte gained popularity because of

his “War on Drugs” campaign. This resulted so far to over 1M drug surrenderers, both

pushers and users. However, the Human Rights People kept on accusing him due to his

campaign on Drugs.

Purpose

Create awareness on the cause and effects of drug abuse in order to generate

individual, group and community involvement in the formulation and implementation of

preventive drug abuse program.

Project Description

Title: DRUG ADDICTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL

According to a primer prepared by the Dangerous Drug Board (DDB), the illegal and

excessive use of drugs is simply the taking of any chemical substance, whether illicit or licit,

which results in the impairment of a person’s physical, mental, emotional, and social

capacities .

A drug is a substance that brings about physical, emotional, or behavioral change in a

person taking it. Any drug maybe harmful if taken in dangerous quantities or combinations,

or by individuals sensitive to the effects in ordinary or even minute amounts.

Drug therefore, have been used by people for various reasons; some good, some bad.

They are used as medicines, for relaxations, relief from tensions, etc. As time passes, people
learn to use this substance for different purpose. They start it in a dangerous way. So, let’s be

vigilant if someone offers you drugs.

Goal:

Develop awareness or a sense of responsibility among the high-risk groups to stay

away from drugs

Objectives:

1. Increase awareness and knowledge of School administrators, Teachers, Staff,

Parents-Teachers-Community Associations (PTCA) on drugs and their role in the drug abuse

prevention

2. Develop new and improved strategies to prevent drug use and its consequences

3. Provide a program of recreations/rehabilitation for students found to be with drug

problems

4. Educate parents on drug abuse problems and help them realize their and own

potential and responsibility towards preventive efforts

Methodology

1. Weekly counseling of students found to be positive on drugs

2. Monthly in-service/seminars focusing on Educating Students on Drug Prevention

and Control

Funding:

School Fund,

Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE)

 Donations

Time Frame:

Year round, School Year 2019-2020

Evaluation

Survey on Students Awareness on Drug Prevention and Control

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Being caught up in a generation where millennials are thought as people who can’t be

successful in the future, there’s a very high chance that the youth today would resort to

excessive use of anti-depressants to let go of what they are feeling. But, as the cliché goes,

“Lahat ng sobra ay masama,” there will always be bad effects when you excessively use

something, especially when its’s something as dangerous as drugs.

Based on what is happening in today’s generation, especially for the youth, the intake

and usage of drugs seems to be just a normal thing. The aforementioned claim is supported

by the fact that 3,974 drug users and couriers were arrested and more than 130,000

surrendered to the Philippine National Police (PNP) upon the implementation of its “Oplan

Tokhang” in the month of July.

When “Oplan Tokhang” made a noise for its successful implementation, people

started to get comfortable with the lives they are living, knowing that the number of drug

users in the country are decreasing rapidly, but as we all know, the usage of illegal drugs is

very rampant in the Philippines, so no one should let their guard down for other drug users

are lurking in the dark, doing well-executed plans under the radar of the authorities.
 The proponents aim to help the drug-intoxicated people to get out of the shadows with

the help of weekly counseling and seminars to be held monthly. With this kind of interactive

actions, it will surely be helpful for the drug users to change their ways and get back to being

a good person, free from the control and influence of drugs. If the intoxicated drug user goes

under successful counseling and seminars, there is a high chance that a complete

rehabilitation can be attained.

As stated in the preceding paragraph, the main action for those youth under the

influence of drugs is they will undergo intensive and serious counseling sessions every week,

plus a monthly seminar about drugs during the rehabilitation process that will last for at least

three months. Aside from the one-on-one sessions, the drug users will also engage in

physical activities to somehow sweat out some of the drugs they have taken inside their body.

This kind of peer and one-on-one sessions with the youth under the influence of drugs

will surely be very helpful for the latter. Aside from they are able to open up to someone

about the struggles they’ve had which pushed them to resorting to the bad help brought by

illegal drugs, they are able to reflect about the things they have done before they used drugs.

As stated in earlier paragraphs, if a drug user goes on a successful rehabilitation process, it

will be able to break free from the influence of drugs.

The success of the rehabilitation process done to the drug users will be evaluated

through the future actions of the latter. If an ex-drug user refuses to resort to the help of drugs

ever again and takes a new path in his life, it is considered as a successful rehabilitation. If

the person unfortunately accepts drugs back into its life, it is then considered an unsuccessful

rehabilitation process.
PROJECT NEEDS AND COST

The cost for the execution of the project about informing people about the good and

bad effects of drugs will only require a small amount of money and if possible, none. The

projects mostly focuses on the critical thinking and understanding ability of the audience

which only requires mind works, not money-related works.

The items needed in the project would be facts about the good and bad effects of

drugs which would be little to no cost for the people who would participate in the event.

However, if there will be a certain budget allotted for the execution of the project, it would be

probably used for the food and accommodation of the participants.

Main personnel needed to carry through the project proposed about drugs would be

the proponents of the project and the equipment needed would be the media that the

proponents would use to further explain the bad and good effects of drugs.

ITEMS ITEM QUANTITY PRICE PER AMOUNT

DESCRIPTION UNIT

Food To be eaten by (depends on the Php 50 (depends on the

the proponents number of number of

and the participants) participants)

participants

Token Given to show (depends on the Php 100 (depends on the

appreciation and number of number of

gratitude participants) participants)

Transportation Needed to reach ---------- Php 50 ----------

the venue of the

 awareness

program

Stationary Needed as the Php 100 (depends on the

participants number of

need to participants)

participate in

activities

TOTAL AMOUNT: Php 300

TIMELINE

Activity July August September October

2019 2019 2019 2019

Planning

Counseling

Seminar

Rehabilitation

WORK PLAN

Activity Objective Strategies / Person Materials Time Frame Expected

Activities involved needed outcome/
output

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drugs

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