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Drug According to Its Dependence
The by degree of hard Drugs are those that cause physical and psychological dependence, ie, altering the psychic and social behavior of addicts, as opium and its derivatives, alcohol, amphetamines and barbiturates.
The soft drugs are those that create only a psychological dependence, among which are the derivatives of cannabis such as hashish or marijuana, cocaine, lysergic acid, better known as LSD, as well as the snuff.
This division of hard and soft, is questioned, and one could say that the hard and soft are bad they are good or less bad, but at the same dose administered can have the same effects nocivos.
The Unit is the state of an individual which constantly creates and maintains a desire to eat any substance. If this desire is maintained by metabolic mechanisms and lack creates a withdrawal syndrome is called physical dependence. If the unit is maintained by psychosocial mechanisms, usually defined as psychological psychosocial or drug dependence.
The Divided Into narcotics such as opium and its derivatives morphine, codeine and heroin, stimulants like coffee, amphetamines, crack and cocaine, and hallucinogens such as LSD, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms and cannabis derivatives, such as hashish.
Which are Drugs?
Are substances whose use may cause dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or result in a disruption of the trial function, behavior or mood of the persona. Any substance capable of altering the body and its action mental exercise it on behavior, perception and consciousness.
Drug dependence is the excessive consumption, persistent and regular term of all substance drug tóxica. The viewed from a strictly scientific point of view is the active ingredient, raw material. In that sense can be compared formally drugs in pharmacology and in the medicinacon a drug, ie drug and substance can be used as synonyms.
Drugs are a chemical used in the treatment or prevention of disease. The drugs can be produced from plants, minerals, animals, or by synthesis. A second concept that is social, pursuant to which drugs are prohibited substances harmful to health, which are abused and that somehow bring individual and social harm.
We still have the problem where these substances act, as all these drugs have a basic element in the body that is the central sistemanervioso structure which is more delicate and the most important thing for humans, and whether these substances act on these structures, damaging them, hurting, will undoubtedly constitute a serious and dangerous element to the community, individual health and public health course.