Talk:Drug use

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 * Laurel Bush 11:29, 13 July 2005 (UTC).

Above written when article redirected to Recreational drug use.
 * Laurel Bush 09:21, 14 July 2005 (UTC).

Now that the drug page is destroyed, it makes more sense to redirect to recreational drug use again. --Thoric 06:43, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

All drug use is recreational? I dont think so. Laurel Bush 10:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC).
 * No, but the drug disambiguation page isn't even specific only to drugs. We need a new drug page.

Called Drug (substance), perhaps? Laurel Bush 12:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC).

Below is an small arcticle that you might find useful.

Drug abuse occurs when a person's use of a drug interferes with his or her daily life. Usually people use drugs to treat medicial conditions. However, drug abusers do not use drugs as medince but as a way of coping with loneliness, boredom, or other nonmedicial problems. Drug abuse can lead to physicial dependence, or psychology depence. Although many people abuse illegal drugs such as cocaine or heroin, most drug abuse in the U.S occurs with legal drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, inhalants, and prescription drugs.

Alcohol is a drug that slows down the central neveous system. It interferes with thinking and movement.

Tobacco contains nicotine, a stimulant that smokers find pleasent and realxing. However, nicotine is highly addictive. Tobacco can cause lung cancer, heart dieases, and other illnesses.

People who abuse inhalents sniff substances such as glue or cleaning fluids. A person inhalents feels giddy. Inhalents can coat the lining of the lungs, resulting in coma or even death.

Prescription drugs are drugs ordered by the doctors's command.

Drug abuse can result in poor school or job performance. SSBM Pro 03:13, 15 May 2007 (UTC)SteveNash11

Someone seems to have lost or destroyed the plot above I am not about to go through the page's history to see how and when Laurel Bush (talk) 16:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Drug-related articles a mess
Wikipedia's drug-related articles are generally a mess Perhaps this is because current thinking about drugs is generally a mess Perhaps there is no coherent objective way of thinking and writing on the subject We have laws seemingly dedicated to the notion that drugs are evil, and the use of force (sometimes lethal) to suppress their production and supply Somehow, at the same time, we have a vast legal drugs industry, for ever chasing the holy grail of immortality I offer the following as potentially useful definitions:
 * Controlled drug: drug within the scope of laws which are named, effectively, as drug control laws, for example, in the United Kingdom, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and the Drugs Act 2005
 * Pharmaceutical drug: product of a body, pharmaceutical company or drug company, which is licensed to produce and supply controlled drugs as medicines
 * Legal drug:
 * pharmaceutical drug, provided it is not held contrary to drug control laws; or
 * drug falling outside the scope of drug control laws and not otherwise illegal, for example, in the United Kingdom, alcohol or tobacco,
 * Illegal drug:
 * drug held contrary to drug control laws; or
 * drug falling outside the scope of drug control laws and defined as illegal in some other way, for example, in the United Kingdom, alcohol sold to someone under the age of 18

"Illicit drug use" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Illicit drug use and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 11 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Sangdeboeuf (talk) 06:36, 11 May 2022 (UTC)