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Drug
any substance that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed,
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absorbed via patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue
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causes a physiological change in the body.
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Drug (pharmacology definition)
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a drug is a chemical substance of known structure, other than a
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nutrient of an essential dietary ingredient, which, when
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administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect
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Pharmaceutical drug |\
medicine or medication; a chemical substance used to treat,
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cure, prevent, or diagnose a disease or to promote well-being
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Prescription drug |\
a pharmaceutical drug that legally requires a medical
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prescription to be dispensed |\ |\ |\
,over the counter drug
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a pharmaceutical drug that can be obtained without prescription
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recreational drug |\
any substance with pharmacological effects that is taken
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voluntarily for personal pleasure or satisfaction rather than for
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medicinal purposes |\
street drug |\
implies illegal drugs that can only be found on the "street" or
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obtained illegally through the black market
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alcohol
first winery in present day Armenia
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first alcoholic drink was beer (7000 BCE)
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Wine traced back to 6000 BCE
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Cannabis and other herbs |\ |\ |\
first recorded cannabis 2700 BCE as medicine use by Emperor
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Yándi
recreational cannabis 3000 BCE in China |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
, many burial cites in China, India, and Syria contain Cannabis
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(15000 BCE and 10000 BCE) |\ |\ |\ |\
Other herbs: blue lotus is much older (robbing of willpower)
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Opium
first cultivated y Sumerians circa 3400 BCE
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used by many ancient nations
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primary use was medicinal |\ |\ |\
used recreationally by Chinese and Romans
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Drug delivery devices
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Hypodermic syringe: created by Alexander Wood (1853), made
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the true power of morphine as a pain reliving agent
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he and his wife became morphine addicts, wife (Rebecca) is
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believed to be the first known intravenous morphine overdose
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Morphine
The analgesic or pain reducing effects of morphine were quickly
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realized
many addicts were created
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much quackery practices
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