Drugs are important in our everyday lives as it provide us with the necessary chemicals to combat illnesses or diseases when our body are too weak to do so in a shorter stipulated time. For some diseases, drugs can be a substitute to surgery when an individual is risk averse to surgery. Nonetheless, an individual should always do a cost-benefit analysis in the consumption of a specific drug as some drugs have side effects that should not be neglected.
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What are drugs?
Drugs are chemical substances that can change how your body and mind work. Alcohol, caffeine, aspirin and nicotine are some examples. When a drug passes through your body to your brain, it can change how the brain cells are interacting with each other as well as to the rest of the body. It does this by interfering with your brain’s own chemical signals. Having said that, drugs can be a poison or a cure depending on its dosage.