VICE AND DRUG EDUCATION Flashcards
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otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002
Republic Act 9165,
otherwise known as the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972
R.A 6425,
- may be defined as any immoral conduct or habit, the indulgence of which kinds to depravity, wickedness or corruption.
VICE
- is a learning process that influences an individual emotinally, intellectually, psychologically, and socially and may result in the modification of attitudes that influence behaviour
DRUG EDUCATION
- The Egyptians used opium in their religious rituals.
3500 B.C
- The Egyptians used opium as an analgesic, or painkiller.
1600 B.C
were known to have used cocaine for at least 5000 years ago.
South America
- The hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa) from which marijuana and hashis are derived, also has a 5000 year history.
Cannabis
During World Wars I and II, the use of injectable morphine to ease the pain of battle casualties was so extensive that morphine addiction among veterans to be known as the
“ Soldiers Disease”
- the Bayer Drug Company in Germany introduced a new opiate, supposedly a non-addictive substitute for morphine and codeine. It came out under the trade name heroine, yet it proved to be even more addictive than morphine
1898
- Cocaine, was isolated from the coca leaf and appeared on the international drug scene, it too was used for medical purposes.
1869
- its popularity spread and soon it was used in other products, a variety of gin tonics, and the most famous of all is the Coca-Cola, which was made until 1903.
Cocaine
- considered the second major drug traffic route on the other side of the globe.
Golden Triangle
- Burma/Myanmar, 2. Laos and; 3. Thailand
- composed of four (4) countries
Golden Crescent
1. Iran, 2. Afghanistan, 3. Pakistan; and 4. India
approximately produced 60% of Opium in the world, and 90% of opium in the eastern part of Asia. It is also the officially acknowledged source of Southeast Asian “Heroin”.
Golden Triangle-
-major supplier of opium poppy,marijuana and heroin products in the western part of Asia. It produced at least 85% to 90% of all illicit heroin channel in the drug underworld market
Golden Crescent
is considered to be the biggest producer of Cannabis in the middle East.Lebanon has also became the transit country for cocaaine from South America to European illicit drug markets.
The Becka Valley of Lebanon
-is known as the major transshipment point for international drug traffickers in Europe, and became the “Paradise of Drug Users” in Europe.
Spain
=- is known in the world to be the number one producer of “Marijuana”.
Mexico
are the principal sources of all cocaine supply in the world due to the robust production of the “coca plants”.
Columbia, Peru, Uruguay and Panama
- is the second to Mexico as to the production of Marijuana. It also became the major transshipment point for the worldwide distribution of illegal drugs particularly “SHABU”. and “COCAINE” from Taiwan and South America.
Philippines
- known as the center of the world’s drug map, leading to the rapid drug addiction among its people.-
India
- North Sumatra has traditionally been the main cannabis growing area in Indonesia.
Indonesia
These countries are known to be the most favorable sites of drug distribution from the “ Golden Triangle” and other parts of Asia.
Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand-