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What is Drug AbISe?
tis als known s abstae abuse and most often refered to the use of a drug with such frequency that it
causes physical or menta han to the user or impairs sodal funcioning.
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t refers to the use of aY drug orohibited by law
Drug abuse leacis to Drug Dependence and/or Drug Adciction
What is Drug Dependenca?t jeee prbum
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It refers to he physical reance o a drug and s charactertzed by the symptoms of tolerance and
withdrawal.
Itis aoquired in the folowing phases:
a. Initial drug ttse to feel the (high or euphorta
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b. Habitation - The user continue to take drug over an extended period of tirne
e Tolerance s develaped. Tolerance is the necesity to increase the dose of dugs to feel the original efect
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d. Unconrolable aaving - the addict feels a compulsive raving to talke drug repeatedly and tries to
procurethe sae by any means
e. Withdraal syndirome - the addict’s physiologkalond psychólogical unctioning isaltered when deprtved of
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Physical Dependence- The body becomes sick
inactve and incapable af carying useful activity in the absence of
drug.
Psychological dependence -emotional and mental discomforts eist to the indiviual.
What is Drug Addicion?
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tis the state of mind in which a peson has iost the power of selfcontol in respect of a drug.
tis marked by achange in behaviot cased by the biochemical changes in the brain after continued substance