FACES OF

DRUG
ADDICTION


Drug/street name Symptoms Health Effects
Alcohol/beer, wine, wine
coolers, whiskey, vodka,
tequila, rhum, hard Liquor (1-
12 hours effect)

Puffiness of face, redness of
eyes, depression,
disorientation, shallow
respiration, nausea, cold &
clammy skin, dehydration.
Slurred speech. Impairs
muscle coordination,
memory
& judgment.
Causes depression,
aggression, slurred speech,
muscular incoordination.
Frequent use can lead to
cirrhosis of liver, pancreatitis,
brain disorders, vitamin
deficiencies & malnutrition.
Can lead to coma or death in
large quantities.
Marijuana/pot, reefer, grass,
THC, hash, hash oil, herb,
cannabis (2-4 hours effect)
Euphoria, relaxed inhibitions,
disoriented behavior, staring
off into space, hilarity
without cause. Time
distortion. Bloodshot eyes,
dry mouth
& throat, increased appetite.
Fatigue, hallucinations,
depression.
Can impair memory
perception & judgment by
destroying brain cells. Raises
blood pressure. Contains
more known carcinogens
(poisons) than Cigarettes.
Drug/street name

Symptoms

Health Effects

Barbiturates,methalqualone
quaaludes, ludes, yellow
jackets, red devils, blue devils,
Nembutal, Seconal,
sopors, Valium Tranxene,
Xanax,Librium (1-16 hours
effect)
Slurred speech, disorientation,
drunken behavior with no
odor of
alcohol. Sedation, fatigue.
Decreased breathing, pulse &
blood pressure.
Can cause slurred speech,
staggering gait, poor
judgment, & slow,
uncertain reflexes. Large
doses can cause
unconsciousness and death.
Mixing of these depressants
with alcohol causes
thousands of
accidental deaths.
Cocaine/coke, snow, blow, gold
dust, lady, Bernice, C, toot (1/2
to 2 hours effect)
Apathy, anxiety, sleeplessness,
paranoia, hallucinations,
craving for
more cocaine. Weight loss.
Constant sniffing. Mood
swings.
Causes dilated pupils,
increased blood
pressure, heart rate,
breathing rate,
& body temperature. Can
cause seizures, heart attacks
and death.
Crack Cocaine/crack, rock
(5-10 minute effect)
Same as cocaine. More & stronger cocaine is
getting to the brain quicker,
increasing risks of cocaine
use.
Drug/street name


Symptoms

Health Effects

Amphetamines/uppers,
speed, black beauties,
dexies, bennies, crystal
meth, crank, crystal, ice,
hearts, crossroads, white
crosses, caffeine, nicotine,
diet pills(1/2 to 2 hours
effect)
Decreased appetite, dilated
pupils, sleeplessness,
agitation, unusual increase
in activity, mood swings,
paranoia, anti-social
behavior, loss of appetite,
anxiety, weight loss.
Increases heart rate, breathing
rate, blood pressure. High
doses can cause tremors, loss
of coordination & death
from stroke or heart failure.
Frequent use of large amounts
can produce
brain damage, ulcers,
malnutrition, hallucinations,
convulsions & coma.
PCP (phencyclidine)/angel
dust, killer weed, crystal
cyclone, elephant
tranquilizer, rocket fuel
(Variable effects)
Sweating, dizziness,
numbness, hallucinations,
confusion, agitation.
Violence and aggression or
silence & withdrawn state.
Poor perception of time and
distance. Overdose can
lead to death.
Increased heart rate, and blood
pressure. Large doses cause
convulsions, comas, heart &
lung failure, and ruptured brain
vessels.
Users may show long-term
effects on memory, judgment,
concentration, &perception.
Drug/street name

Symptoms Health Effects
Heroin/Mexican brown, China
White, Persian porcelain, "H",
smack, horse, junk, black tar,
Codeine, Morphine,
Meporidine-demerol, Opium,
Paragoric, Percodan,
Fentanyal,
Darvon, Talwin, Tussionex
(12-24 hours effect)
Watery eyes, runny nose,
yawning, loss of appetite,
tremors, irritability, panic,
chills, sweating, cramps,
nausea, apathy, euphoria,
itching, constricted pupils,
reduced vision.
Repeated use can lead to
infections of the heart lining
& valves, skin
abscesses & congested lungs.
May cause nausea and
vomiting. Can lead
to convulsions, coma, &
death.
Gas, Glue & Rush/Locker
Room, aerosol cans, poppers,
snappers,amyl nitrate,
gasoline, lighter
fluid, whippets. (Inhaled
through a saturated cloth or
in a bag covering nose and
mouth.)(Variable effects)
Lack of coordination, slurred
speech,
drowsiness, loss of appetite,
fatigue.
Hallucinations, dizziness,
scrambled words &
disconnected sentences.
Nausea, running nose,
decreased heart rate.
Brain damage occurs when
used over a long period of
time. All these chemicals
carry considerable risk,
particularly of cardiac
arrhythmia. Nausea,
vomiting. Can also cause
suffocation the first time or
any time used.
Drug/street name Symptoms Health Effects
Hallucinogens/LSD,
Mescaline,Peyote, Mesk,
buttons, Psilocybin,
magic mushrooms, acid,
blotteracid, MDA-love drug
(3-12 hours effect)
Beady eyes, nervous, erratic
behavior, laughing, crying,
panic, personality changes,
"sees smells, "hears"
colors. Psychological changes
can be permanent.
Poor perception of time and
distance. Overdose can lead
to death.
Dilated pupils, nausea,
increased blood pressure,
hallucinations, stomach
cramps, blackouts.
Flashbacks, a recurrence of
the drug effects, may be a
problem for some.
Overdose can lead to death.
MDMA/Adam, Ecstacy, X-TC
( A Designer Drug: structural
analogs of controlled
substances.) (Variable up to
days)
Confusion, depression, sleep
problems, anxiety, paranoia,
muscle
tension, involuntary teeth
clenching, nausea.
Increased heart rate & blood
pressure.
Blurred vision, chills,
sweating. Believed to cause
permanent brain damage.
Steroids/Roids, juice, protein,
muscles builder
(Variable effect)
Similar to effects of anti-
depressants and stimulants.
Can increase moodiness
and aggressive behavior
Can develop liver cancer,
cardiovascular problems,
sterility, sexual dysfunction
and stunted growth.
Leah Betts (November 11, 1977 - November 16,
1995) was a schoolgirl from Latchingdon in
Essex, England. She is notable for the extensive
media coverage that followed her death several
days after her 18th birthday, on November 11,
during which she took an Ecstasy tablet, then
collapsed four hours later into a coma, from which
she did not recover.
Cathy Isford was on the verge of realizing her
dreams. About to graduate from high school, serving
as a teacher's aide to help achieve her goal of a career
in teaching, and caught up in the excitement of
planning her wedding.
She and her fiance had given up raves and party drugs
because one night, when they left a rave party they noticed
a line of ambulances outside, waiting to rush drug victims
to medical attention. For two years, she stayed away from
anything unhealthy. But then, as her senior prom
approached, against the wishes of her fiance and friends,
she decided to take Ecstasy one more time for prom.
She was one of 38 prom-goers that night to take Ecstasy. The other 37 woke up
the next morning to celebrate a new day. Not Cathy. Her desire to make her
prom special by taking designer drugs sunk her into a coma four hours after
she took the drug. She never regained consciousness. With her family, fianc
and friends at her side, she fought to survive, but by the second day she was
declared brain dead, and there was nothing anyone could do but mourn.
She was buried in her prom dress.

RA 6425
Comprehensive
Dangerous Drugs
Act
of 1971

SECTION 1:
SHORT TITLE
"The Dangerous
Drugs Act of 1972"
SECTION 2:
DEFINITIONS
(a) Administer
- refers to the act of introducing
any dangerous drug into the body
of any person, with or without his
knowledge by injection, ingestion
or other means or of committing
any act of indispensable
assistance to a person in
administering a dangerous drug to
himself;

(b) Board
- refers to the
Dangerous Drugs
Board created under
Section 35, Article VIII
of this Act
(c) Centers
- refers to any of the
treatment and
rehabilitation centers for
drug dependents
referred to in Section
34, Article VII of this Act;
(d) Cultivate or
Culture
- means the act of knowingly
planting, growing, raising or
permitting the planting,
growing or raising of any
plant which is the source of
a prohibited drug;
(e) Dangerous Drugs
- refers to either:
(1) "Prohibited Drug"
(2) "Regulated Drug"

(1) "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).
(2) Regulated drug,
which includes self-inducing sedatives, such as
secobarbital, phenobarbital, pentobarbital,
barbital, amobarbital and any other drug which
contains a salt of a derivative of a salt of
barbituric acid; any salt, isomer or salt of an
isomer, of amphetamine, such as benzedrine or
dexedrine, or nay drug which produces a
physiological action similar to maphetamine; 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)
(f) Deliver
- refers to a persons act of
knowingly passing a dangerous
drug to another personally or
otherwise; and by any means,
with or without consideration;
(g) Drug dependence
- means a state of psychic or
physical dependence, or both,
on a dangerous drug, arising in
a person following administration
or use of that drug on a periodic
or continuous basis;
(h) Employee
of a prohibited drug den, dive or resort
includes the caretaker, helper, watchman,
lookout and other persons employed by the
operator of a prohibited drug den, dive or
resort where any prohibited drug is
administered, delivered, distributed, sold or
used, with or without compensation, in
connection with the operation thereof;
(i) Indian Hemp
- otherwise known as Marijuana, embraces
every kind, class, genus or specie of the plant
cannabis sativa L., including cannabis
americana, hashish, bhang, guaza, churrus and
ganjab, and embraces every kind, class and
character therof, whether dried or fresh and
flowering or fruiting tops or any parts or portions
of the plant, seeds thereof, and all its geographic
varieties, whether as a reefer, resin, extract,
tincture or in any form whatsoever; (As amended
by B.P. 179 dated March 2, 1982)
(j) Manufacture
- means the production, preparation,
compounding or processing of a dangerous drug
either directly or indirectly or by extraction from
substances of natural origin, or independently by
means of chemical synthesis or by a combination
of extraction and chemical sysnthesis, and shall
include any packaging or repackaging of such
substance or labeling or relabelling of its
container; except that such terms do not include
the preparation, compounding, packaging, or
labelling of a drug or other substance by a duly
authorized practitioner as an incident to his
administration or dispensing of such drug or
substance in the course of his professional
practice;
(k) Narcotic drug
- refers to any drug which produces
insensibility, stupor, melancholy or
dullness of mind with delusions and
which may be habitforming, and shall
include opium, opium derivatives and
synthetic opiates;
(l) Opium
- refers to the coagulated juice of the opium
poppy (papaver somniferum l) and embraces
every kind, character and class of opium,
whether crude, or prepared the ashes or refuse
of the same; narcotic preparations thereof or
therefrom; morphine or any alkaloid of opium;
preparations in which opium, morphine or any
alkaloid of opium enters as an ingredient; opium
poppy; opium seeds; opium poppy straw; and
leaves or wrappings of opium leaves, whether
prepared for use or not; (As amended by B.P.
179 dated March 2, 1982)
(m) Pusher
- refers to any person who sells,
administers, delivers, or gives away to
another, on any terms whatsoever, or
distributes, dispatches in transit or
transports any dangerous drug or who
acts as a broker in any of such
transactions, in violated of this Act;
(n) School
- includes any university,
college, or institution of
learning, regardless of the
course or courses it offers;
(o) Sell
- means the act of giving
a dangerous drug,
whether for money or any
other material
consideration;
(p) Use
- refers to the act of injecting,
intravenously or intramuscularly,
or of consuming, either by
chewing, smoking, sniffing,
eating, swallowing, drinking, or
otherwise introducing into the
physiological system of the
body, any of the dangerous
drugs.
(q) Opium
poppy
- means any part of the plant
of the species papaver
somniferum L., including the
seeds thereof.
SECTION 3:
Importation
of Prohibited
Drugs
SECTION 4:
Sales,
Administration,
Delivery,
Distribution and
Transportation of
Prohibited Drugs
SECTION 5:
Maintenance of
a Den, Dive or
Resort for
Prohibited Drug
Users
SECTION 6:
Employees
and visitors of
Prohibited Drug
Den
SECTION 7:
Manufacture of
Prohibited Drug
SECTION 3:
Importation
of Prohibited
Drugs
SECTION 8:
Possession or
Use of
Prohibited
Drugs
SECTION 9:
Cultivation of
Plants which are
Sources of
Prohibited Drugs
SECTION 11:
Unlawful
Prescription of
Prohibited Drugs
SECTION 12:
Unnecessary
Prescription of
Prohibited Drugs
SECTION 13:
Possession of
Opium Pipe and Other
Paraphernalia for
Prohibited Drug
SECTION 14:
Importation of
Regulated Drugs
SECTION 14-A:
Manufacture of
Regulated Drugs
SECTION 15:
Sale, Administration,
Dispensation, Delivery,
Transportation and
Distribution of
Regulated Drugs
SECTION 15-A:
Maintenance of
a Den, Dive or
Resort for
Regulated Drug
Users
SECTION 16:
Possession or
Use of
Regulated Drugs
SECTION 17:
Records of
Prescription, Sales,
Purchases, Acquisitions
and/or Deliveries of
Regulated Drugs
SECTION 18:
Unlawful
Prescription of
Regulated Drugs
SECTION 19:
Unnecessary
Prescription of
Regulated Drugs
SECTION 20:
Application of
Penalties,
Confiscation and
Forfeiture of the
Proceeds or
Instruments of the
Crime
The penalties for offenses under
Sections 3,4,7,8 and 9 of Article II and
Sections 14, 14-A, 15 and 16 of Article
III of this Act shall be applied if the
dangerous drugs involved is in any of
the following quantities
1. 40 grams or more of opium;
2. 40 grams or more of morphine;
3. 200 grams or more of shabu or
methylamphetamine hydrochloride;
4. 40 grams or more of heroin;
5. 750 grams or more of Indian hemp or marijuana;
6. 50 grams or more of marijuana resin or marijuana
resin oil;
7. 40 grams or more of cocaine or cocaine
hydrochloride; or
8. In case of other dangerous drugs, the quantity of
which is far beyond therapeutic requirements, as
determined and promulgated by the Dangerous
Drugs Board, after public consultations/hearings
conducted for the purpose.
Otherwise, if the quantity involved is
less than the foregoing quantities, the
penalty shall range from prison
correctional to reclusion perpetua
depending upon the quantity.
Every penalty imposed for the unlawful importation, sale,
administration, delivery, transportation or manufacture of
dangerous drugs, the cultivation of plants which are sources of
dangerous drugs and the possession of any opium pipe and other
paraphernalia for dangerous drugs shall carry with it the
confiscation and forfeiture, in favor of the Government, of all the
proceeds of the crime including but not limited to money and
other assets obtained thereby and the instruments or tools with
which it was committed, unless they are property of a third person
not liable for the offense, but those which are not of lawful
commerce shall be ordered destroyed without delay. Dangerous
drugs and plant sources of such drugs as well as the proceeds or
instruments of the crime so confiscated and forfeited in favor of
the Government shall be turned over to the Board for proper
disposal without delay.
Any apprehending or arresting officer who
misappropriates or misapplies or fails to account
for seized or confiscated dangerous drugs or
plant-sources of dangerous drugs or proceeds or
instruments of the crime as herein defined shall
after conviction be punished by the penalty of
reclusion perpetua to death and a fine ranging
from five hundred thousand pesos to ten million
pesos. (As amended by Section 17, R.A. 7659,
dated December 13, 1993.)
SECTION 20-A:
Plea-
bargaining
Provision
SECTION 21:
Attempt and
Conspiracy
SECTION 22:
Additional
Penalty if
Offender is an
Alien
SECTION 23:
Criminal Liability of
Officers of Partnerships,
Corporations, Associations
and other Juridical Persons;
Liability in Cases Where
Vehicles, Vessels or Aircraft or
Other Instruments are used to
Commit a Crime
SECTION 24:
Penalty for Government
Officials and Employees
and Officers and Members
of Police Agencies and the
Armed Forces; Planting
of Evidence
SECTION 24-A:
Laboratory
examination/test on
apprehended users
of dangerous drugs.
SECTION 25:
Records Required of
Pharmacists, Physicians,
Veterinarians or Dentists
Dispensing or Prescribing
Dangerous Drugs, and of
Importers, Manufacturers,
Wholesalers, Distributors,
Dealers and Retailers of
Dangerous Drugs
SECTION 26:
Penalty for a
Person Importing
Dangerous Drugs by
Making Use of a
Diplomatic Passport
SECTION 27:
Criminal Liability
of Possessor or
User of Dangerous
Drugs During Social
Gatherings
SECTION 28:
Heads,
Supervisors and
Teachers of
Schools
SECTION 29:
Dangerous
Drugs as Part of
School Curricula
SECTION 30:
Voluntary Submission of
a Drug Dependent to
Confinement, Treatment
and Rehabilitation by the
Dependent Himself or
Through His Parent,
Guardian or Relative
SECTION 31:
Compulsory
Submission of a
Drug Dependent to
Treatment and
Rehabilitation
SECTION 32:
Suspension of
Sentence for First
Offense of a Minor
SECTION 33:
Violation of
Confidential
Nature of Records
SECTION 34:
Treatment and
Rehabilitation
Center for Drug
Dependents
SECTION 35:
Creation and
Composition of
the board
SECTION 36:
Powers and
Duties of the
Board.
SECTION 37:
Appropriation
SECTION 38:
Management of
Funds Under this Act,
Annual Report by the
Board
SECTION 39:
Jurisdiction
SECTION 40:
Reclassification,
Addition or Removal
of Any Drug from the
List of Dangerous
Drugs
SECTION 41:
Separability
Clause
SECTION 42:
Repealing
Clause
SECTION 43:
Effectivity
vazgazg
vazgazg
vazgazg
vazgazg
vazgazg
vazgazg
vazgazg