1. What is a drug?

According to Article 357 of China's Criminal Law, drugs refer to opium, * *, methamphetamine (ice), morphine, marijuana, cocaine and other narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances that can make people addicted.

2. What are the basic characteristics of drugs?

Have dependence; It is illegal; It is harmful.

3. What are the main hazards of drugs?

Drugs seriously endanger people's physical and mental health, cause malnutrition, damage respiratory tract and immune system, cause the spread and infection of many diseases, and damage blood vessels; Damage the nervous system, cause sexual dysfunction, and cause various mental symptoms. ;

The drug problem induces other illegal crimes and destroys the normal social and economic order; The drug problem permeates and corrodes political institutions, exacerbating corruption; The drug problem has caused huge economic losses to society.

4. What behaviors belong to drug abuse?

Common drug-taking behaviors are: smoking, scalding, sniffing, taking orally and injecting.

5. Why drug addiction?

Generally speaking, drug addiction is the result of the interaction between drugs and human body. On the one hand, drugs have a common feature, that is, after entering the human body, they act on the nervous system related to learning and memory in the human brain, gradually producing mental dependence (mental addiction), and then forming the pursuit of using the drug.

On the other hand, after drugs enter the human body, it destroys the normal balance of the human body and produces a new state of balance (physical dependence) under the action of drugs. Once you stop taking drugs, you will feel uncomfortable. Only by continuously inhaling larger doses of drugs can we maintain a new balance in the human body.