Class 12 · Human Health and Diseases

Drug Abuse and Misuse — NEET Biology

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Drugs like barbiturates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and other similar drugs, that are normally used as medicines to help patients cope with mental illnesses like depression and insomnia, are often abused. Morphine is a very effective sedative and painkiller, and is very useful in patients who have undergone surgery. Several plants, fruits and seeds having hallucinogenic properties have been used for hundreds of years in folk-medicine, religious ceremonies and rituals all over the globe. When these are taken for a purpose other than medicinal use or in amounts/frequency that impairs one's physical, physiological or psychological functions, it constitutes drug abuse.

NCERT Biology · Class 12 · Chapter 7 · Paragraph 69
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Assertion (A): The same substance can be medicine or constitute drug abuse depending on usage. Reason (R): Morphine is always harmful regardless of medical supervision and dosage.

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