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Drug Abuse: A Curse for Human Society


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Drug addiction is a therapeutic condition, a chronic relapsing disease. As in other domains of experimental medicine, appropriate experimental investigations are needed in order to better understand the disease. People with an addiction do not have control over what they are doing, taking or using. Their addiction may reach a point at which it is harmful. Addictions do not only include physical things we consume, such as drugs or alcohol, but may include virtually anything, such abstract things as gambling to seemingly harmless products, such as chocolate - in other words, addiction may refer to a substance dependence (e.g. drug addiction) or behavioural addiction (e.g. gambling addiction).However, to understand the diverse facets of drug effects and of the underlying pathophysiology it is necessary to keep in mind the complexity of the psychopathological processes. The main symptoms that characterize addiction correspond to expressions of dysfunctions within specific circuits and regions. Pathways to addiction are numerous and comorbidity and in the real world poly-drug use are common.The study show that so many molecules and formulations are present in the market that used as drug addiction like codein phasphte syrup, alprazolam tablet, pentazocine injection, combination of gandapuro tel and turpine tel ointment, lorazepam tablet, pheniramine maleate, nitrazepam tablet.

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Authors

Mukesh Sharma
Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research, Kurud, Bhilai-(Chhattisgarh), India
Kushagra Nagori
Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research, Kurud, Bhilai-(Chhattisgarh), India
Shubhang Agrawal
Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research, Kurud, Bhilai-(Chhattisgarh), India
Vinay S. Verma
Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research, Kurud, Bhilai-(Chhattisgarh), India
Hemendra Swarnakar
Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research, Kurud, Bhilai-(Chhattisgarh), India
Sanjay Vaishnav
Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research, Kurud, Bhilai-(Chhattisgarh), India
Md. Nazir
Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research, Kurud, Bhilai-(Chhattisgarh), India
Nasim Khan
Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research, Kurud, Bhilai-(Chhattisgarh), India
Ajay Singh
2GD Rungta College of Science and Technology Kurud, Bhilai (Chhattisgarh), India

Abstract


Drug addiction is a therapeutic condition, a chronic relapsing disease. As in other domains of experimental medicine, appropriate experimental investigations are needed in order to better understand the disease. People with an addiction do not have control over what they are doing, taking or using. Their addiction may reach a point at which it is harmful. Addictions do not only include physical things we consume, such as drugs or alcohol, but may include virtually anything, such abstract things as gambling to seemingly harmless products, such as chocolate - in other words, addiction may refer to a substance dependence (e.g. drug addiction) or behavioural addiction (e.g. gambling addiction).However, to understand the diverse facets of drug effects and of the underlying pathophysiology it is necessary to keep in mind the complexity of the psychopathological processes. The main symptoms that characterize addiction correspond to expressions of dysfunctions within specific circuits and regions. Pathways to addiction are numerous and comorbidity and in the real world poly-drug use are common.The study show that so many molecules and formulations are present in the market that used as drug addiction like codein phasphte syrup, alprazolam tablet, pentazocine injection, combination of gandapuro tel and turpine tel ointment, lorazepam tablet, pheniramine maleate, nitrazepam tablet.

Keywords


Drug Addiction, Humanity, Curse, Market Trends.

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