GROUP 1

ILLEGAL DRUGS:
IMPACTS TO
MENTAL HEALTH
MEMBERS:
QUINTO, JIRO
BAGUIO, MARINEL
DAÑO, CYRELL
GUCOR, LOVELY SHANE
MARINAY, VANESSA
MARTINEZ, VENICE VIVIEN
NISNISAN, MARIA CARMEL
PAJANUSTAN, GIRLEY
PINOTE, LAZEL
PONCE, FAYE HAVEN
WASQUIN ZESSAH JOYCE
 RATIONALE
Youth and students these days are engaging in activities related to illegal drugs.
Many people don’t understand why or how other people become addicted to illegal drugs.
According to the WHO. A drug is substance that can change how living organism works.
Some drug are illegal because they are very addictive. Psychoactive drugs affects the
central nervous system and alters a person’s mood, thinking, and behavior.

As humans, it is our nature to take risk and experiment. People have experimented
with drugs for centuries in rituals, for cultural, social, and medical reasons. Young people
today will experiment with illegal drugs for a number of reason. And it’s very sad that
people used it abusively. Young people use drugs for similar reasons that adults do – to
change how they feel because they want to feel better or different.

Many young people live in communities which suffer from deprivation, with high
unemployment, low quality housing and where the infra-structure of local services is
poorly resourced. In such communities drug supply and use often thrive as an alternative
economy. As well as any use that might be associated with the stress and boredom of living
in such communities, young people with poor job prospects may recognise the financial
advantages and status achievable through the business of small scale drug supply.

There is considerable pressure to use legal substances. Being around others who are using
drugs can make people feel like they have to follow suit to fit in. For example, it may be
hard to abstain from alcohol in a pub where everyone else is drinking.

However, drug use is certainly not restricted to areas of urban deprivation. As the
press stories of expulsions from private schools and drug use in rural areas show, illicit
drug use is an aspect of our society from top to bottom and in all regions.

People using illegal drugs are usually people who are depressed, they think that
there’s no solution to all of their problems. They believe that illegal drugs is the only way to
lessen or to end the problem they’re suffering. Where in fact, the moment they use illegal
drugs, the more problem they will encounter.
The aim of this study is to understand the effect of illegal drugs to the mental health
of the youths of today and how it will affect to their behavior on the way they act inside the
school premises or to the society. In this study, it also aims for the possible reasons why
they engage to this kind of activities.
 PROFILE OR THE SUBJECT

Name: Samuel AbellaAbueva

Age: 18

Address: Dumaguete City

Gender: Male

Status: Single

Hobbies: Listeningto music, playing basketball, surfing the internet, and loves adventure

Level of Education: Secondary

Family Type: Nuclear

 PROFILE OF THE SUBJECT

Name: Christian Lloyd RadazaTumulak

Age: 18 years old

Address: Opon,Lapu-Lapu City

Gender: Male

Status: Single

Hobbies: surfing the internet, and playing online games

Level of Education: Secondary

Family Type: Nuclear

 PROFILE OF THE SUBJECT

Name: JesonDaño

Age: 24 years old

Address: Abuno, Lapu-LapuCity

Gender: Male

Status: Single

Hobbies: playing online games, listening to music, surfing the net, and know how to repair
things

Level of Education: Secondary

Family Type: Joint

 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The main objective of this study is to understand and have more knowledge about
the impact of illegal drugs to the mental health of an individual.

Specifically seeks answer to the following questions:

1. What is the profile of respondent?
a. Name
b. Age
c. Status

2. Why they use illegal drugs?

3. How these factors push them to use illegal drugs:

a. Family problems?
b. Influenced through peers?
c. Own decision because of curiosity?

4. What they feel when they use illegal drugs?

5. Can they get through weeks without using illegal drugs?

6. How illegal drugs affect their lives?

a. In their studies?
b. Social life?
c. In their own lives?

7. How illegal drugs changes your way of

a. Thinking
b. Decision making?
 ANALYSIS DATA

For respondent no. 1, we interviewed Samuel Abueva, an 18 year old from

Dumaguete City. He was 12 when he first started using illegal drugs. He was urged to try
this because of curiosity, peer pressure, and to escape from his problems. He admitted that
he uses one or more at a time just like Marijuana, Shabu, LSD, and Shrooms. He also said
that he was drug-dependent and uses drugs every day because he feels empty without it.
Because of that, he would commit robbery to buy these drugs. He said illegal drugs really
made him happy but the after effect of it was worse. Because of illegal drugs, he can’t study
properly and was forced to quit school at the age of 14. It also made a barrier between him
and his family and is not able to connect with other people because of his addiction. For
him, it really made a huge wreck in his life and greatly affected his future.

For respondent no. 2, we interviewed an 18 year old from Opon, Christian Lloyd
RadazaTumulak. As we interviewed him, we notice that he always stutters and is struggling
to answer our questions. He first started using illegal drugs at the age of 13 and was urged
to try this because of his peers. He joined fraternities at a young age and was encouraged to
try these drugs to feel good and to forget all of his problems; especially in his family. He
admitted that he can’t last a day without illegal drugs; specifically Marijuana and said that
he uses 5 sticks a day. He later on became a drug-dependent and said that it gives him an
unexplainable feeling where they always use it on their friends’ house. He stopped going to
school at the age of 14 and said that illegal drugs made him distant from his family and to
the people on our society because according to him, he always curses and is `wild’ under
the influence of it. He feels really bad about himself because he had let illegal drugs control
his life and block his life to the brighter future.

For respondent no. 3, we interviewed a 24 year old from Abuno, PajacLapu-Lapu

City, JesonDaño. He said that he started using drugs at the age of 13 and was urged to try it
because of curiosity and social pressure. He also uses it to forget his family problems and
struggles in ife. He admitted that it feels so good to use this illegal drugs; specifically Shabu
because of the sensation that it gives. He admitted that he always use it and can’t get
through the day without it. Because of drugs, he had difficulty of reaching out other people,
especially with his family, and committed crimes just like stealing, for the sake of having
money to buy these illegal drugs. He was forced to quit school at the age of 15 because he
was really addicted to it and his mental state was getting worse. According to him, he
always feels guilty about using illegal drugs because it affected him and his life drastically.
 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

For many young people, Drugs, or other substance like cigarettes is just part of
growing up. Many of them try these substances only a few times and stop, while others may
continue to use them on more regular basis.

Our respondents started in an early age when they first used illegal drugs. They
tried a number of substances, including household chemicals (inhalants), prescription and
over-the-counter medicines, illegal drugs, and cigarettes. Marijuana is the illegal drug that
young people use most often. They use these substances for many of the same reasons that
adults do to relax or feel good. But they also have their reasons for using substances. For
example, they may want to know what it feels like to get high, they may want to rebel
against their parents or fit in with their friends and curiosity.

Using drugs affected their general life, physical growth, and emotional and social
development. It also affected their academic performance in school because using drugs
can affect their attention, memory, and ability to learn. It can also change how well they
make decisions, how well they think, and how quickly they can react. And using drugs can
make it hard for young people to control their actions.

Parents can play a key part in teaching their children about alcohol and drugs use by
talking honestly and openly about the effects that alcohol and drugs can have on their
children’s health, school work, and relationship. There are many possible solution for
helping students resist becoming involved with drugs like consistent and fair discipline by
their parents, open channels of communication for thoughts and feelings, tolerance of the
child’s mistakes and accurate information about the problems of growing up today. Trained
and experienced family physicians of psychologist in the treatment of teenage substance
use are the best sources of health. Though the road to success and drug-free living is
sometimes painfully long and difficult, we have personally witness many successes.

To the future researchers, we recommend that you will focus on the end effects of
using illegal drugs towards family relationships, and how it destroys the whole individual.
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