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What is the difference between use and abuse of substances? |
I thought it was the same thing Think of it this way: you can take (use) a prescribed medication but when you take too much of it, take incorrectly, or take a prescribed medication belonging to someone else, that's abuse. Use is when something is used in therapeutic doses for therapeutic reasons. For example, marijuana smoking is used to help chemotherapy patients combat nausea. Now, if that same chemotherapy patient continued using marijuana even when he was not nauseous, that would be abuse. USE use of substances means proper n judicial usage of substances... |
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