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Health
Quarter 2, Wk. 5 - Module 5
Effects of Substance Use and Abuse

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

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Health - Grade 9
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Quarter 2, Wk.5 - Module 5: Effects of Substance Use and Abuse
First Edition, 2020

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Health
Quarter 2, Wk. 5 - Module 5
Effects of Substance Use and Abuse

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 Table of Contents

What This Module is About........................................................................................................................i

What I Need to Know...................................................................................................................................ii
How to Learn from this Module................................................................................................................ii
Icons of this Module....................................................................................................................................iii

What I Know.................................................................................................................................................iii

Lesson 1:
(Harmful Effects of Substance Use and Abuse on the Individual,
Family, School, and Community).....................................................................................
What I Need to Know......................................................................................................1
What’s New........................................................................................................................2
What Is It.............................................................................................................................3-4
What’s More......................................................................................................................5
What Is It.............................................................................................................................6
What’s More......................................................................................................................7
What’s New…...................................................................................................................8
What I Have Learned......................................................................................................9
What I Can Do..................................................................................................................10

Summary
Assessment: (Post-Test)
Key to Answers........................................................................................................................................
References.................................................................................................................................................

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What This Module is About
This module discusses the harmful effects of substance use and abuse to the
individual, family, school, and community. Also explains the health, socio-cultural,
psychological, legal, and economic dimensions of substance use and abuse The two
lessons we will be tackling in this module will have sort of activities for students’
deeper understanding and further learning.

The harmful effects of substance use and abuse can destroy, firstly, you as an
individual in the society. Secondly, to the members of the family. Thirdly, it ignites
handful troubles at school. And lastly, to the community, that may put people lives at
risk, because use and abuse of drugs respects no one.

The effects can damage the health of every individual. It also creates unstable
balance to the socio-cultural aspect of the community. It alters psychological
perception and wavers the legal ways to heinous deeds. It also creates an unhealthy
effect to economic or financial dimensions.

In connection with the drugs situation in our country, this lesson will give you
profound understanding and learning based on real life situation present in the
Philippines.

What I Need to Know

At the end of the lesson, the learner are expected to:

1. Discuss the harmful effects of substance use and abuse to the individual,
family, school, and community,

2. Explains the health, socio-cultural, psychological, legal, and economic

dimensions of substance use and abuse

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How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises honestly.

Icons of this Module

What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that
Know are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

What I know This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
Knowledge
What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that
Of the current one.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you

What is It These are discussions of the activities as a

way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

What’s More These are follow-up activities that are in-

tended for you to practice further in order to
master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what you

Learned have learned from the lesson

What I can do These are tasks that are designed to show-

case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and situations.

What I Know
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Picture Analysis: Identify which among the pictures below shows the use and
abuse of drugs

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 Harmful Effects of substance use
and abuse to individual, family,
Lesson school, and community
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What I Need to Know
The lesson of this module deals with the harmful effects of substance use and
abuse to you as individual, to your family, classmates and school mates, and within
the community.

Before we start with the discussion let’s have a warm up activity which will
prepare you for the lesson proper.

Activity 1: K-W-L Chart

Fill up the boxes with words, terms, phrases associated with the topic, “what you
know, what you want to know, and What you want to learn.”

What did you What you WANT What you want to

KNOW to know LEARN

School

Family

Community

What’s New

The topic harmful effect of substance use and abuse to individual, family,
school, and community is a very interesting topic to discuss with.
Drug use and abuse does not only affect the person itself. The most affected
are the person that surrounds you. It will destroy you as a person and affects
relationship with your family. The use and abuse of drugs will not only change you
as an individual, but it can also affect your performance in school, as well as it can be
a threat to your community.
This activity will make you discover and know how bad and harmful drug is.

Activity 2: What’s in the news?

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 1. Newspaper or Magazines
2. Cut at least two drug related accidents/injuries/crimes
3. Paste it in your notebook / bond paper

Source: ______________________
Title of the Article: ______________________________Date: _______

A. The 5 “Ws” and “H”

1. Who are involved?
2. What happened?
3. When did it happen?
4. Where did it happen?
5. Why did it happen?
6. How did it happen?
B. How does the article affect you? ( Discuss in at least five complete sentences)

What Is It

Activity 3: Role Playing

A. The class will be divided into groups
B. Each group will be assigned a specific topic related to harmful effects of
substance use and abuse
 Harmful effects of drugs to family
 Harmful effects of drugs to school
 Harmful effects of drugs to community
C. After the presentation let your classmate comment on your play

Rubric for Role play

Harmful Effects of Drug abuse

Drug abuse can affect not only from oneself, also by abusing the substances can
affect also to your family, to your school, to the community where you live.
Below are the Effects of drug use and abuse on 5 your family, school, and community.
 A. Harmful effects of Drug Use and Abuse on Family
 Pain in the Family
 Broken and unhappy family ties
 Ignored duties and responsibilities
 Financial problems
 Expensive treatment and rehabilitation
B. Harmful Effects of Drug Use and Abuse on School
 Poor academic performance
 High percentage of Absences and tardiness
 Multiple incidence of school fights/trouble
 Don’t have any achievements in school
 Disrespectful to School Authorities and Policies
C. Harmful Effects of Drug Use and Abuse in the Community
 High incidence of crime
 High incidence of accidents
 Affected economy due to low manpower production
 Loss of government funds due to drug-related operations, treatment and
rehabilitation.
Process Question:
1. How did you find the activity?
2. What is your realization after learning the effects of drugs?
3. Why do you think young people like you get easily affected by drugs?
4. As a citizen, what can you contribute to lessen the use and abuse of drugs?

What’s More
In this part of the lesson, is composed of activity that students will performed or do
written task. This will give learners better and more understanding about the harmful
effects of drug use and abuse to family, school, and community.
The written and performance activities will be done by the learner guided by the
teacher.

Activity 4: Research
1. It could be done individually or by group
2. You / the group can choose/assigned on the following topics
 Harmful effects of drug use and abuse on the family
 Harmful effects of drug use and abuse on the school
 Harmful effects of drug use and abuse on the community
3. Each will make thorough research about harmful effects of drug use and abuse
( data, leading effects of drug use and abuse, who are involved, protective
factors, and ways to prevent and control )
4. Prepare for a short presentation of your work

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 What Is It

Activity 5: Lights, Camera, Action!

Perform a skit about the Effects of Drug Abuse
Group 1: Self
Group 2: Family
Group 3: School
Group 4: Community
Group 5: Society

Who are affected in drug use and abuse?

1. Self – is an individual person as the object of its own reflective consciousness. A

typical character or behaviour, the basic personality or nature.
2. Family – a group of parents consisting of parents and children living together in a
household. The basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing
their children.
3. School – an institution for educating children or people at which instruction is given
in a particular discipline. Its purpose is to provide for the fullest possible development
of each learner for living morally, creatively, and productively in a democratic society.
4. Community – a group of people living in the same place or having a particular
characteristic in common as result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
It is a social unit with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs, or
identity.
5. Society – the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered
community. An organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity. It
involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same
spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant
expectations. Its purpose is basically to serve individuals’ needs for survival. It is way
of harnessing the resources and abilities of others in order to increase individuals’
chances of survival and improve individuals’ quality of life.

Activity 6: Short quiz

Identification (2 points each): Identify each item and write the correct answer on
the space provided.
1. _________ the basic personality or nature.
2. _________ the basic unit in the society consisting of parents and children.
3. _________ an institution for educating children or people.
4. _________ a social unit with common characteristics.
5. _________ an organization or club form for a particular purpose or activities.

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 What’s New

According to the news, addiction of drug and HIV-AIDS are often not related cases.
In the Philippines using (IDUs) Injecting drug user is one reason of transmission for Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which causes the (AIDS) or Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome.
HIV is a blood-borne virus which means, it is transmitted from one person to another
through blood transfusion, sexual intercourse, exchange of body fluids, and from mother to
child during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
AIDS is a syndrome because it is a complex pattern of symptoms. Is a disease
which attacks and weakens the body’s immune system.
There are thousands cases of infection. In relationship to drug use and abuse, the
two most recorded means of transmission of HIV-AIDS is through the following:
1. Risky sexual behaviour
2. Sharing of needles through drug use

High Risk behaviours:

A. Injecting Drug Users (IDUs).
To inject drugs through needle sharing during sessions.
B. Poor judgement and risky sexual practices.
Can lead the person to perform risky sexual practices which further aggravate HIV-
AIDS infection.
C. Prognosis of disease and drugs
Is a prediction of a particular future of the disease which viral in brain cells is more
than other cells in the body.
D. Delay in drug abuse treatment
The treatment or medication of a drug user will depend on the user how long they
take the drugs. The longer they keep on taking drugs, the treatment or medication
will be delayed. The earlier a drug user seeks treatment, the better the chance to be
cured in a short period of time.

What I Have Learned

This part of the lesson will showcase the learning of the learners. It will
enhance their confidence in performing and showing skills regarding on what they
have learned from the lesson discussed.
The harmful effect of the substance use and abuse to the family, school, and
community where the drug user lives. As part of the curriculum it will brighten up the
students mind on what are the danger the drugs brings.

Activity 7: Letter
1. Make a recommendation letter to your mayor or barangay captain about the
dangers brought by drug abuse in the community.
2. Sight possible evidences of drug abuse like the presence of “rugby boys” etc.
3. Submit it to your teacher for evaluation
4. Prepare a short presentation of your work in the class.

Criteria for Letter writing

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 Criteria 4 3 2 1

Letter parts

Handwriting

Content & Length

Spelling

Grammar

What I Can Do
Activity 8: Campaign Advocacy Video
1. Individual / Group Activity
2. Create an advocacy campaign about drug abuse and its effects
3. You can use mobile phone, digital camera, or tablets
4. Invite three teachers as a reviewer
5. Prepare for film viewing along with the reviewer and your classmates.
Criteria for rating
Criteria 5 4 3 2 1

Effectiveness

Thoughtfulness in
Video

Use of Media
(Music, Text,
Pictures, Video)

Educational
Value

The effects of drug abuse on the family members like children also extend to

finances. The financial damage of addiction can lead to a child being undereducated and
don’t care for the future itself. Person who engaged in this kind of activities may have less

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future. Alcoholics and other substance abusers are also likely to grow up in a highly unstable
home. It may damage the future of individual who are addicted to it.

Summary

Drugs by nature are good because it makes us feel better, it treats our illnesses, help
calm down patients with mental disorders or relieve patient’s pain and suffering. The
rampant use of drugs may result to a bad, harmful or dangerous effect to oneself, family,
school, and community. It also gives burden to health, socio-cultural, psychological, legal,
and economic dimensions.
Various risk of drug use has been discovered by medical science. These risks are
called effects. Effects are either short-term or long-term. One of the effects of drugs
particularly those injected into the blood stream is the risk of HIV-AIDS contamination. HIV-
AIDS in the Philippines is continuously growing and posing threat to every Filipino. We must
move now and make a difference to give our children hope of living a better life tomorrow.

Assessment: (Post-Test)
Multiple choice: choose the letter of your correct answer

1. Separation of family members

a. Harmful effect to family
b. Harmful effect to self
c. Harmful effect to school
d. Harmful effect to community

2. What does the effect of drugs to school?

a. Ignored duties and responsibilities
b. Poor academic performance
c. High incidents of accidents
d. Always on fighting
3. Loss of government funds due to drug related operations, treatment and
rehabilitations is a
a. drug effect to self
b. drug effect to school
c. drug effect to community
d. drug effect to family
4. A typical character or behaviour, the basic personality or nature.
a. Family
b. Community
c. School
d. Self
5. The basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children.
a. Family
b. Society
c. Community
d. School
6. An organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity.
a. Family
b. Society
c. Community
d. School
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7. An institution for educating children or people at which instruction is given in a
particular discipline.
a. Family
b. Society

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d. Community
8. It generally meant to describe the emotional and mental process that is associated
with the development of human brain
a. Health
b. Legal
c. Economic
d. Psychological
9. The physical aspect of an individual will function abnormally.
a. Health
b. Legal
c. Economic
d. Psychological
10. The effects of drugs particularly drugs those injected into the blood stream is a risk of
a. Disease
b. HIV-AIDS
c. Tuberculosis
d. Addictive

Key to Answers
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 1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. B
7. C
8. D
9. A
10. B

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