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Drug Abuse & Addiction: Facts on Health Effects & Treatment

DRUG ABUSE 

     
⁃ the use or overuse, usualky by self-administration , of any drug in matter that deviates from the prescribed pattren.
⁃ Health care workers , many of whom have easy access to narcotics , ate at high risk of abusing analgesics , Increased awerness of this problem has led hospitals to establish special programs for identifying these individuals , esp. physicians , nurses,and pharmacists, in order to provide support and educatiok in an attempt to control the problem and prevent loss of license
⁃ Alcohol , tobacco , products are not tradionallybconsidered to be drugs of abuse , although they are adictive and harm many people.

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