TERMS AND

DRUG ABUSE
JARGONS
 ADMINISTER
• The act of introducing any
dangerous drug into the body of
any person with or without his
knowledge.
 CHEMICAL
• It is any substance taken into the
body that alters the way and the
mind and bodywork.
 CHEMICAL ABUSE
• It is an instance when the use of
chemical has produced negative
or harmful consequences.
 CULTIVATE
• It means the act of knowingly
planting, growing, raising or
permitting the planting, growing,
raising of any plant which is the
source of a prohibited drug.
 DRUG
• Drugs are synthetic chemical used as
medicine or in the making of medicines,
which affects the body and mind and have
potential for abuse.
• Drugs in its criminological meaning, refers
to substance, other than food and water
that is intended to be taken or
administered for the purpose of altering,
sustaining or controlling recipients
physical, mental or emotional state.
 DRUG ABUSE
• It is illegal, wrongful or improper use of
any drug.
• Use of medically useful mood-altering for a
purpose different from the one for which
that drug has been administered.
 DRUG ADDICTION
• It refers to the state of periodic or
chronic intoxication produced by
the repeated consumption of a
drug.
 DRUG DEPENDENCE
• It refers to the state of psychic or
physical dependence or both on
dangerous drugs following the
administration or use of that drugs.
• WHO defines it as the periodic,
continuous, repeated administration of
a drug.
 PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE
• An adaptive state caused by repeated
drug use that reveals it self by
development of intense physical
symptoms when the drug is stopped
(withdrawal syndrome).
 PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE

• An attachment to drug use which arises

from a drug ability to satisfy some
emotional or personality needs of an
individual.
 DRUG EXPERIMENTER
• One who illegally, wrongfully, or
improperly uses any narcotic substances
for reasons of curiosity, peer pressure, or
other similar reasons.
 DRUG SYNDICATE
• It is a network of illegal drug operations
operated and manned carefully by groups
of criminals who knowingly traffic through
nefarious (immoral) trade for personal or
group profit.
 MANAFACTURER
• The production, preparation, compounding
or processing a dangerous drug either
directly or indirectly or by extraction from
substances of natural origin or by chemical
synthesis.
 NARCOTIC DRUG
• Refers to illegally used drugs or
dangerous drugs which are either
prohibited or regulated drugs.
• It is also refers to drugs that produces
sleep or stupor and relieves pain due to its
depressant effects on the central nervous
system.
 PUSHER
• Any person who sell, administer, deliver or
give away to another, distribute, transport
any dangerous drug.
 REHABILITATION
• It is a dynamic process directed towards
the changes of the health of the person to
prepare him from his fullest life potentials
and capabilities, and making him law
abiding and productive member of the
community without abusing drugs.
 TOLERANCE
• It is the tendency to increase dosage of
drugs to maintain the same effect in the
body.
 TREATMENT
• A medical service rendered to a client for
the effective management of his total
condition related drug abuse.
• It deals with the psychological and
physiological complications arising from
drug abuse.