Hey friends,
hope you all passed last week very excitingly like me. Last week I noticed
something that maximum patients and even some persons from my profession
are confused about some very simple differences of usage of drugs. And that
time it caught me, to think that if this kind of simple topics are very
complicated to the persons with whom i deal with and some of us, then how could we give a good service to those persons who believe in us. I know it’s sounds not good that some of us making mistakes but we should take it positively,
because if no one make mistakes then how could we learn new things and how
could we know that there is some other ways to think or to improve ourselves. Don’t be
hopeless because in that time i are here to make things easy, right and to
solve this type of problems. So i am going to discuss with you about
this types of very simple topic which sometimes become very confusing or
complicated to us.
In my profession, i
always have to advice and deal with a lot of patients and also dispense drugs
in a proper understanding way. In that time i have to assure that patients must
know what should to do and do not. Because mostly, we found out the misuse and abuse
of drugs. So today’s
topic is the exact definition, meaning and differences of misuse and abuse of
drugs.
Misuse of drug is the
improper use of either non-prescribed or prescribed medications. This is applicable in situations
wherein the medication is taken for therapeutic purpose only and not for ecstasy,
pleasure and euphoria. For
example, taking antibiotics for a cold. Since colds are caused by viruses, and
antibiotics only work for bacterial infections, that would be a misuse of
antibiotics.
Nevertheless,
some sources claim that drug misuse is more commonly applied to situations
where prescription medicines are involved. Because these are licensed drugs
that require prescriptions for them (patients) to be purchased at the drug
stores (opposite of over-the-counter medications). Most popular misused drugs
are the psychoactive medications that lead to some emotional and mental adverse
effects to the user.
If a patient
will decide not to take his regular dose of antibiotics until his dose of pain
killer shows some effect this can be categorized as drug misuse. The simple
thought of taking in more than the prescribed amount of medicines can also be called
drug misuse even it’s for a one time.
On the other
hand, drug
abuse is a term that implies the repetitive and willful use of drugs in a way
other than its socially sanctioned purpose. Or, Drug abuse, is when you use a
drug excessively, to the damage of your physical or mental health. One of the
most commonly abused substances is alcohol.
Thus the difference
between misuse and abuse of drug is clearly on the difference of intention. The only problem is that one cannot
readily tell that a person is misusing or abusing drugs by simply looking at
him or her. However, one can say that drug misuse or abuse have already been
reached if the user display some psychological, social and physical
impairments.
Summary
1. Drug misuse is the improper use of medication for purely
therapeutic gains but does not include the improper use of drugs taken for
pleasure and the like.
2. Drug abuse is a more repetitive and willful habit of taking
drugs for the purpose of the pleasure, ecstasy and euphoria but does not
include the repeated use of drugs for therapeutic purpose.
So, dear
friends, I hope that you enjoyed knowing about the above information of Misuse
and Abuse of drugs and also hope that from now all of you shall concern
properly when you deal with using drugs. Soon I shall discuss with you about
the differences between addiction, dependence and tolerance. Because these words
are often used interchangeably. Till then stay healthy, be passionate and keep
blogging.
1 comment:
i liked the above post very much........very successful in describing your point of thinking, described very simply in very simple words........of course i will keep blogging
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