The Importance Of Instrumental Use

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Instrumental use is completely different than recreational. Drug users that actually need the drug for a purpose is considered to use instrumentally. For example, if someone needs a drug that will help them walk due to a muscle disease is considered instrumental use. If the drug starts to interfere with something they are doing, they need to check with their doctor to see if they can change their prescription to something else. It is important to keep someone from becoming addicted to the prescribed drug. It is said that once the pain or the reason the drug was prescribed starts to go away, they need to start lowering the dosage of the drug. The problem with that, is some people will not be truthful and will say they are in pain, when they

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