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A '''drug''' is a substance which has an negative effect on health but is taken through addiction or a desire to fit in.
 
A '''drug''' is a substance which has an negative effect on health but is taken through addiction or a desire to fit in.
  
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Illegal drugs are drugs that the government has declared to be illegal. This is often based on a perception, true or otherwise, that such substances can potentially cause damage to a person's [[brain]] and other organs. Equally there is concern about the fact that most drugs cause [[addiction]]. There is much debate over the legalization of drugs, people on both ends of the political spectrum are advocating for some drugs to be legalized while others on both ends are advocating for tougher penalties for possession of drugs. Some new age [[hippies]] believe drugs can separate one's body from one's soul, and native Americans believe drugs allow one to talk to trees; current research <ref>http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~bhidalgo/litreview.htm</ref> in neuroscience has shown that psychedelic drugs can be used to induce religious experiences <ref>http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1171389.ece</ref>.
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Illegal drugs are drugs prohibited by law. This is often based on the fact that these drugs cause damage to a person's [[brain]] and other organs, and that the drugs are highly addictive.  Many celebrities have become addicted to drugs that killed them; many more non-celebrities have also died at a young age from drug addiction.<ref>''See, e.g.'', [[Hollywood values]].
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Those in favor of legalizing drugs often argue that the negative social consequences, including gang warfare and the permeation of dangerously impure substances, are more to do with their prohibition than the drugs themselves. Indeed, before the criminalization of heroin in the UK it was no more than a trivial medical problem <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4647018.stm</ref>. Opponents of criminalization also point to the [[Prohibition]] experiment in the USA, where  the illegality of alcohol caused problems of gang warfare and unsupervised distilleries that made worse the very problem that prohibition was intended to solve.
 
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Further difficulties arise when various drugs are made illegal for political reasons; the most prominent of which being the outlawing of [[hemp]] to make way for the tree pulp industry. <ref>http://www.ylana.com/hempartc.htm</ref>
 
  
 
The term "prescription drug" refers to medication to address a particular medical problem, such as an illness.  [[Antibiotics]] are examples of prescription drugs.
 
The term "prescription drug" refers to medication to address a particular medical problem, such as an illness.  [[Antibiotics]] are examples of prescription drugs.

Revision as of 04:28, January 26, 2008

A drug is a substance which has an negative effect on health but is taken through addiction or a desire to fit in.

Illegal drugs are drugs prohibited by law. This is often based on the fact that these drugs cause damage to a person's brain and other organs, and that the drugs are highly addictive. Many celebrities have become addicted to drugs that killed them; many more non-celebrities have also died at a young age from drug addiction.<ref>See, e.g., Hollywood values.

The term "prescription drug" refers to medication to address a particular medical problem, such as an illness. Antibiotics are examples of prescription drugs.

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