drugs

Define drug: a drug is a substance which may have intoxicating, medical or performing enhancing capabilities, among other effects, when put into the body of an animal or human and is considered neither a food nor not a food. What is considered a drug and what is a food differs either slightly or greatly depending on the culture and in some cultures the distinctions between foods and drugs and their types are placed in laws vary in from preventing to restricting drug usage.

Clinical trials: When research of a new drug begins they must make sure all conditions are met which are to be effective, be safe, be stable and be successfully be able to be taken into and removed from the body. It usually takes over a decade and a few hundred million pounds before you’ll see them as common used medicine.

The reasons for testing are to insure that the drug is not harmful to environment, wildlife or more importantly human users from adult to unborn. An example of this was in the 1950s when a medicine called Thalidomide was created as a sleeping pill and as a way to cure morning sickness. However no test were performed to see how this would affect the unborn child and many women who had taken the drug gave birth to babies with limb deformities. Since the so called ‘thalidomide tragedy’ a new was passed and set the standard for the testing of all medicines called the Medicines Act 1968.

Legal and illegal drugs: Drugs are chemicals that affect the body or, in the case of psychoactive drugs, the brain. Legal drugs are not that difficult to come by and can be brought at medical stores or prescribed by a doctor if you’re the right age and is necessary. Illegal drugs are much more powerful drugs which affect you to the point of doing damage to you. The...

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Caffeine: Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid and a stimulant drug. Caffine is found in varying numbers in seeds, leaves and fruit of certain plants. It is most commonly consumed by humans from extracts of the coffee plant as well as various foods and drinks made from the kola nut. Negative side effects include anxiety, addiction, increased blood pressure and vasoconstriction, reduced control of fine motor movements and stimulation of urine.

Alcohol: Alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group(-OH) is bound to a carbon atom. The carbon centre should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms. Bad side effects include impaired brain development, impaired memory, hepatitis, hallucinations and many more.