What is “Drug Use” and “Drug Abuse”?

Although both of these terms are seemed as similar, they are two different or overlying but separate concepts. Unfortunately, society misunderstands these concepts as the way they misunderstand the term ‘drug’.

Therefore, it is very useful to examine what are the similarities and differences in drug use and drug abuse, and thereby understand what these two terms really are.

Term ‘use’ is often goes with good purposes while ‘abuse’, because of its suffix ‘ab’, is often goes with bad purposes or misuse. Accordingly, it can come to a conclusion that drug use means having drugs for good purposes, that means taking drugs for medical purposes, while drug abuse refers to having drugs for bad purposes, that means other than medical purposes.

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