INTRODUCTION
Definition of Terms
Drug – is a chemical substance used as medicine or in the making of medicines, which affects the body
and mind and have potential for abuse.
Chemical – is any substance taken into the body that alters the way and the mind and the body work.
Chemical Abuse – is an instance when the use of chemical has produced negative or harmful
consequences.
Narcotic Drug – refers to illegally used drugs or dangerous drugs, which are either prohibited or
regulated drugs. It also refers to drugs that produces sleep or stupor and relieves pain due to its
depressant effect on the CNS. The term Narcotic comes from the Greek word “narcotikos”. It is
sometimes known as “opiates”.
Drug Abuse – is the illegal, wrongful or improper use of any drug.
Drug Addiction – refers to the state of periodic or chronic intoxication produced by the repeated
consumption of a drug.
Drug Dependence – refers to the state of psychic or physical dependence or both on dangerous drugs
following the administration or use of that drug. WHO defines it as the periodic, continuous, repeated
administration of a drug.
Physical Dependence – an adaptive state caused by repeated drug use that reveals it self by
development of intense physical symptoms when the drug is stopped (withdrawal syndrome).
Psychological Dependence – an attachment to drug use that arises from a drug ability to satisfy some
emotional or personality needs of an individual.
Tolerance – is the increasing dosage of drugs to maintain the same effect in the body.
Pusher – any person who sell, administer, deliver or give away to another, distribute, transport any
dangerous drug.
Use - the act of injecting, consuming, any dangerous drugs. The means of introducing the dangerous
drug into the physiological system of the body.
Administer – the act of introducing any dangerous drug into the body of any person with or without his
knowledge.
Manufacture – the production, preparation, compounding or processing a dangerous drug either
directly or indirectly or by extraction from substances of natural origin or by chemical synthesis.
Drug Experimenter – one who illegally, wrongfully, or improperly uses any narcotic substances for
reasons of curiosity, peer pressure, or other similar reasons.
Drug Syndicate – It is a network of illegal drug operations operated and manned carefully by groups of
criminals who knowingly traffic through nefarious trade for personal or group profit.
Definition of Terms
Drug – is a chemical substance used as medicine or in the making of medicines, which affects the body
and mind and have potential for abuse.
Chemical – is any substance taken into the body that alters the way and the mind and the body work.
Chemical Abuse – is an instance when the use of chemical has produced negative or harmful
consequences.
Narcotic Drug – refers to illegally used drugs or dangerous drugs, which are either prohibited or
regulated drugs. It also refers to drugs that produces sleep or stupor and relieves pain due to its
depressant effect on the CNS. The term Narcotic comes from the Greek word “narcotikos”. It is
sometimes known as “opiates”.
Drug Abuse – is the illegal, wrongful or improper use of any drug.
Drug Addiction – refers to the state of periodic or chronic intoxication produced by the repeated
consumption of a drug.
Drug Dependence – refers to the state of psychic or physical dependence or both on dangerous drugs
following the administration or use of that drug. WHO defines it as the periodic, continuous, repeated
administration of a drug.
Physical Dependence – an adaptive state caused by repeated drug use that reveals it self by
development of intense physical symptoms when the drug is stopped (withdrawal syndrome).
Psychological Dependence – an attachment to drug use that arises from a drug ability to satisfy some
emotional or personality needs of an individual.
Tolerance – is the increasing dosage of drugs to maintain the same effect in the body.
Pusher – any person who sell, administer, deliver or give away to another, distribute, transport any
dangerous drug.
Use - the act of injecting, consuming, any dangerous drugs. The means of introducing the dangerous
drug into the physiological system of the body.
Administer – the act of introducing any dangerous drug into the body of any person with or without his
knowledge.
Manufacture – the production, preparation, compounding or processing a dangerous drug either
directly or indirectly or by extraction from substances of natural origin or by chemical synthesis.
Drug Experimenter – one who illegally, wrongfully, or improperly uses any narcotic substances for
reasons of curiosity, peer pressure, or other similar reasons.
Drug Syndicate – It is a network of illegal drug operations operated and manned carefully by groups of
criminals who knowingly traffic through nefarious trade for personal or group profit.
