By James Turner

Many parents who may have experimented with relatively mild forms of drugs in their youth are learning that drugs today have become considerably more potent. The development of these newer, more powerful and addictive drugs can be attributed largely to the economics of the drug trade. The idea is simple. The stronger the drugs, the smaller the amounts and packages that have to be smuggled and the greater the profits that can be realized.

Prior to being sold and bought on the street, drugs of high purity may be broken down and mixed with other ones, or even inert powders. This is to make them go further and, therefore, increase profits. Against this backdrop, the user takes wildly fluctuating amounts of the drug, which may result in fatal overdose.

The difficulty is that while a particular drug problem may level out, another one begins. Many of the prescription drugs (examples are the narcotics, analgesics, and sedatives) have been used illicitly. Manufacturers of illicit drugs continuously look for ways to produce or modify the newer synthetic narcotics used for anesthesia in order to evade legal regulations. In fact, some of these enormously potent synthetic drugs are already being marketed and sold on the street. While therapeutic drugs are subject to strict controls, there are literally thousands of them that are not tested until evidence of their toxicity becomes apparent.
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By James Turner

A drug problem is an everyday struggle of not only the user, although some users haven’t realized yet that it is a problem, but the users family, friends, or special loved one. You may not instantly determine or realize that someone you care about is having problem with drugs.

People involved with drug problems or know someone who has at times thinks that drug addiction and drug abuse are basically the same thing, and should just be used interchangeably. But actually they are both different terms with different meanings. Complexity revolving drug abuse and definition has become increasingly clear and several efforts have been done to look of the right meaning both terms.

Drug Addiction:

The World Health Organization committee (WHO) had collected numerous of definitions concerning drug abuse and addiction and had suggested a generic term “drug dependence”. This addiction is defined as a disorder wherein the drug user’s behavior is being strongly influenced and dominated by the drug. It is a condition of recurring intoxication that happens when there is constant consumption of drug. It has characteristics of intense need or desire of continuous use, tendency of increasing dosage, unfavorable effects on both individual and society, and dependence on effects.

Drug Abuse:

Drug abuse is defined as the misuse of the drug or substance according the culturally acceptable standard. It is simply an abuse usage of substance which may involve excessive and habitual use in order to attain a certain effect. These so-called substances may be illegal, can be taken from streets and syndicates against the law, or can be legal as well in a form of prescription that are used in a pleasurable manner rather than medical.
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