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1, Dangers of Drug abuse
Drug Abuse affects your brain in the same way stress does. Long-term usage of drugs makes users more prone to everyday stress compared to Non-users.

Long after effects of the drug stop are felt, the drug can still be in the body. For example, cocaine can be found in the body up to one week and marijuana up to four weeks after a single use.

Drugs can cause the brain to send the wrong signals to the body. This can happen the first time a drug is used.

In healthcare professionals, problems show up on the job only after finances have been destroyed, families are alienated and the abuser has dropped out of their customary recreational activities. It may be possible that healthcare professionals miss less work because they get their drugs at work.

Estimates are 10 to 15% of all healthcare professionals are misusing drugs at some times in their careers. This is the same numbers that apply to the general population. While medical professionals abuse drugs at the same percentage rate as the general population, their choice of addictive substances is different. Healthcare professionals tend to use benzodiazepines and opiates. Use of recreational drugs such as marijuana and cocaine is lower than in the general population.

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1, Definition of drug abuse

Drug abuse is the use of illicit drugs, or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs. The abuse of legitimate drugs can be done by using the drugs in a manner or in quantities other than directed, or for purposes other than legitimate purposes.
Drug abuse has a wide range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. All of these definitions imply a negative judgement of the drug use in question. Some of the drugs most often associated with this term include alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methaqualone, and opium alkaloids. Use of these drugs may lead to criminal penalty in addition to possible physical, social, and psychological harm, both strongly depending on local jurisdiction. Other definitions of drug abuse fall into four main categories: public health definitions, mass communication and vernacular usage, medical definitions, and political and criminal justice definitions.
2, Difference between drug abuse and misuse of drugs

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