Category:Drug: Difference between revisions

'''Drugs''' are substances other than [[nutriment|nutriments]]. Nutriments are essential to sustaining the physical and mental processes of creatures, whereas drugs are introduced into the body for the purpose of modifying, temporarily or permanently, these processes. Drugs may be used [[medicinally]], [[ritually]], and [[recreationally]]. Drugs prescribed to cure or treat disease are [[medications]]. An overdose of drugs is [[poisonous]]. The prescription, in the case of medication, and the consumption, in the case of drugs generally, of the correct [[dose]] is essential. For any drug and indeed any substance, in sufficient quantity, can function as a [[poison]]. [[Foxglove]], for example, can [[kill]]. Many drugs include undesirable side effects which make them at the same time poisons. This in fact true, at least at some level, of all drugs and distinguishes them from nutriments. Drugs may be and, at least at some low level, are usually [[addictive]].