If you're reading this your browser does not support frames. You can navigate from here, but you'll need to use the BACK button on your browser to get back here each time you click on a page number. For the sake of clarity, we'll refer to both of these as drug abuse . While this includes the use of substances like heroin, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy etc. In the next few pages we'll take a look at drug abuse and drug dependence.
Drug abuse means the voluntary abuse of drugs - i.e. where people choose to do so.
Drug dependence is a bit further down the line and involves compulsive abuse of drugs - i.e. where people are driven to abuse them by various internal compulsions. Each section is quite short. Click on the page numbers above to move through.