High schoolers start tinkering with drugs in their Second Year
BACOLOD CITY — Most teens in the country begin to use illegal drugs upon reaching their second year in high school, a well-known psychiatrist and physician for drug-dependents Dr. Antonio Gauzon, said.
“When the student continues to use the drug in the succeeding years, he or she may end-up being a drug pusher in order to sustain the financial need to buy the drug,” he told members of the City Peace and order Council, CPOC, during a recent meeting led by Bacolod City Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson.
For this reason, Gauzon wants the audience of an anti-drug movie “Tulak” to be shown beginning at the second year level in the private and public schools in Bacolod City. It will be shown on the first week of March, this year.
“Tulak” is a movie mostly starred by former drug dependents that have move-on from their bleak past and now wished to share what they have learned through the movie for other to learn from it.
These actors include John Regala, Maria Isabel Lopez, Julio Diaz, Criselda Volks, Richie D’Horsie, Milissa Mendez, Pia Moran, Lyka Ugarte and Liz Alindogan.
Others in the cast are Fanny Serrano, Ynez Veneracio,and Mon Confiado. Lead star Rafael Rosell IV is drug free.
Gauzon said some drugs will have an initial good effect physically on the user because they trigger hunger, like shabu. But this will later on be reversed because of the feeling of always having a full stomach, he added.
The group needs the participation of big companies in the city to sponsor the event while school officials pledged to enjoin students to see the movie and help strengthen institutions that help drug dependents quit the vice.
Vice Mayor Sayson also appealed to members to help him seek for the cooperation of professional organizations and other sources to achieve the financial goal of the endeavor. (PIA-LOL)
