Whats the difference between drug use and drug abuse?

Question

EXPLAIN please

Answer 1

It's about having a beer and two bottles of vodka.

Answer 2

Drug use is using drugs to treat illness.

Drug abuse is using drugs for recreation or overusung them for a dependancy.

Answer 3

The greatest problem  in studying controlled users of illicit drugs was that of differentiating between drug use and drug abuse. This difference was fairly evident at the extremes of behavior, but it was by no means so obvious in the gray area where the majority of cases fell. At one extreme were those who used no drugs except marijuana and used that only once a week, along with those who used psychedelics only three or four times a year. All these subjects were so clearly responsible in their drug use that it would not have been rational to define them as drug abusers. At the other extreme were several compulsive users .

Drug addiction is a state of periodic or chronic intoxication produced by the repeated consumption of a drug (natural or synthetic). Its characteristics include: an overpowering desire or need (compulsion) to continue taking the drug and to obtain it by any means; a tendency to increase the dose; a psychic (psychological) and generally a physical dependence on the effects of the drug; and  detrimental effects on the individual and on society

Drug habituation (habit) or drug use  is a condition resulting from the repeated consumption of a drug. Its characteristics include:  a desire (but not a compulsion) to continue taking the drug for the sense of improved well-being which it engenders; little or no tendency to increase the dose; some degree of psychic dependence on the effect of the drug, but absence of physical dependence and hence of an abstinence syndrome [withdrawal]; and ( detrimental effects, if any, primarily on the individual

How drug use can lead to addiction

People with conditions such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or mood disorders such as depression and anxiety may find that a street drug makes them feel less jumpy, depressed or anxious.

The line between substance abuse and drug dependence is defined by the role drugs play in your life.  Addiction and drug dependence occurs when drugs become so important that you are willing to sacrifice your work, home and even family. Once your brain and body get used to the substances you are taking, you begin to require increasingly larger and more frequent doses, in order to achieve the same effect.

Drugs such as Heroin, a painkiller, over-stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain producing euphoric effects which cause compulsive drug-seeking behaviors and affect self-control and judgment. These drugs are highly addictive and require a medical detoxification (detox) to cleanse the chemicals from your system. The severity of withdrawal symptoms such as chills, shakes, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, headaches, and cravings can be reduced in detox with prescribed medications that can be slowly decreased over time. Withdrawal affects you physically and emotionally resulting in sadness, depression and exhaustion.

Answer 4

Well drug use is just casual use of a drug,

while drug abuse is constant use of a drug

Answer 5

They are very similar.  Some will say they are the same.

When I think of "drug use," I think of an occasional user of marijuana, prescription pain pills, Valium, Ativan, all the "pams."  

When employers screen applicants by using a urine test, those are the things they are looking for (among others.)  If you can show you have a prescription, you're off the hook.  Although the illegal ones don't go over very well as jobs go.

Drug abuse is, in a way, the same, but the drugs are now running the person's life.  Dependency becomes a real problem, and the lives of these individuals revolve completely around making sure they have an adequate supply.

Either way, each could be considered addiction.

Answer 6

well drug use is the use of drugs in both proper or inproper manner.

drug abuse is when drugs are used in a inappropriate manner for things other than the main purpose of use or taking illegal drugs for the effect.

Answer 7

Drug use is occassional while drug abuse is frequently.

Drug use is controllable while drug abuse is uncontrollable.

Drug use is mind over matter while drug abuse is matter over mind.

Answer 8

well drug use is the use of a drug in the proper manner in the proper dosage. Drug abuse is using a drug past its prescribed dosage