Drugs and You

Today, 1st of March, Chin Han, Boon Meng, me , and the other 5 volunteers for Block B(Yoke Wen) and Boys Hostel(Chen Hui, Hui Min, Desmond, Frederick) attended Drugs Training and Dialogues organised by MCYS(Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports) at MCYS community hall, 17th level, MCYS builiding.

All volunteers that attended the training

MCYS building

Due to some technical problem, we arrived late at MCYS building at about 230pm, but the training supposed to be started at 2pm. We quickly rushed into the training hall and we saw alot other individual volunteers and employers also attended that training as well.
Our speaker of Drugs Training, Mr Eddy Razali (refer picture below)

Mr Eddy, Drugs Training speaker

Mr Eddy's presentation

We also given a nice brochure which inside contained of alot useful informations about drugs

Drugs and You brochure

Mr Eddy shown us alot of informations and figures of different drugs such as Subutex(which cost $120 per tablet),Cannabis(Ganja, is a kind of plant which originally green in color like seaweed), Cocaine, Ecstasy(known as playboy),Heroin (Pek Hoon),Ketamine(Vitamin K),'Ice', Inhalants(Glue-sniffing) and others. Besides that, he also told us some of the effects and dangersof drugs, what are withdrawal symptoms and also the penalties of possessing, consuming or trafficking drugs. Moreover he shown us pictures of people getting strokes of cane on their backside(very ugly!!).

Subutex

Cannabis


Heroin


Ketamine


Methamphetamine or 'Ice'


Inhalants


Ecstasy

Effects,Dangers and Penalties of possession or consumption of Ecstasy

We also been told that ladies must beware if someone treat you a bottle of mineral water, that person maybe injected Ketamine into it without your known and let you drink. Ketamine can cause you unable to move, distort your judgement and cause confusion. In order to prevent it, shake the bottle u received before you drink it. If the bottle contained Ketamine, you will see alot of white bubbles after you shake it, so DON'T ever drink it.

Moreover, do you wonder why Ecstasy producers want to risk their clients' life by adding rat poisons and pendaflour tube glasses into Ecstasy?? It is because glasses are used to cut your stomach inner part to increase absorption of drugs whereas rat poisons are used in order to prevent blood clogging .(Very cruel!!)

Ecstasy will caused hallucination, inability to think, see and co-ordinate properly,jaw clenching, teeth grinding and uncontrollable shaking. How to control a people after he/she has consuming Ecstasy, there is a special solution where you put a pacifier into his/her mouth,then he/she will calm down more and won't shake that aggressively.
These are some of the special knowledge that we learned from Mr Eddy.

After the drugs training, there is another Dialogue session with a MCYS officer.

MCYS officer

She shared with us that Boys and Girls Homes have plenty of programmes are being held with different purposes. Below are list of programmes:
1.Stop, Think and Do
2.Emotional Intelligence Programme
-eliminate the use of violence
-conflict resolution skills
-interactions among residents
3.Parenting and family Bonding Groupwork
4.Outdoor adventure learning
-experienced learning
-develop team spirit, trust, responsibility and accountability
5.Sexuality Workshop
-sexuality and sexual development issue
-danger of unprotected sex
6.Anti Drug Programme
7.Preparatory programme for Day Release Scheme (DRS)
8.Job Preparation Programme
-residents learn to write resume, job application, interviews
-interest in finding a job
-conducted before their placement on DRS
9.Service Learning Programme(Teen A.C.T.S)
-self development, reflection, project management
-recognise their strength and weaknesses and to affirm one and another
10.Preparatory programme for dischange
-cope stresses from community
11.Recovery and Empowerment for Sexually Abused Vistims(RES)
12.Self Harm Intervention Programme (SHIP)
-understand their self harm tendencies
13.Support Group for Young and/or Expectant Mother
-insight into different stage of pregnancy,caregiving
(Programme 11 to 13 are for Girls Home)
14.Positive Adolescent Sexuality Treatment (PAST)-Boys Home

-residents with sexual offenses or those with history of sexualised behaviours
15.Violence Prevention Programme(VPP)
-help those with history of violence/ aggresive
-mange anger in a positive manner
16.Theft Intervention Programme (TIP)
-theft is a common offense in Home
-help those history of chronic pilfering
-prevent theft offending cycle
-relapse prevention plan
17.Spectrum Rainbows Programme
-help single parent families

Then we have our refreshment before we continued another dialogue with the same MCYS officer.

Chin Han having his delicious food


Discussion between Boon Meng and Mr Eddy

The second dialogue was conducted in another room where we giving our feedbacks to MCYS officer about what we have done during our sessions in Home. Besides that, we also suggested that more workshops and trainings to be held in future for NTU volunteers.

In the room where second dialogue was conducted. We brought in food as well. Haha

After the second dialogue, we reached the end of our 2-3 hours training. We took our last photos with MCYS officers before we left.