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Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption ...
English: A rational scale to assess the harm of drugs. Data source is the March 24, 2007 article: Nutt, David, Leslie A King, William Saulsbury, Colin Blakemore. "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" The Lancet 2007; 369:1047-1053.
Methamphetamine is known to possess a high addiction liability (i.e., a high likelihood that long-term or high dose use will lead to compulsive drug use) and high dependence liability (i.e., a high likelihood that withdrawal symptoms will occur when methamphetamine use ceases).
Acute toxicity of drugs versus regulatory status. In J. M. Fish (Ed.),Drugs and Society: U.S. Public Policy, pp.149-162, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Also published at Professor Gable's faculty page. This chart contains the same information as File:Drug_safety_and_dependence.png except the X-axis is inverted.
Drug misuse, drug abuse, substance use disorder, substance misuse disorder: A 2007 assessment of harm from recreational drug use (mean physical harm and mean dependence liability) [1] Specialty: Psychiatry: Complications: Drug overdose: Frequency: 27 million [2] [3] Deaths: 1,106,000 US residents (1968–2020) [4]
Under the Misuse of Drugs Act in Singapore, methamphetamine is a Class A — Schedule I controlled drug. [27] Under the Section 17 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, any person who carries 250 or more grammes of the drug shall be presumed to possess them for the purpose of drug trafficking, [28] which is punishable by death. Unless authorized by the ...
Situations that may require an authority include where the drug may only have benefit in limited conditions, the true cost of the drug is high, or when there is a risk of dependence. Some states have subsets of Schedule 4 with additional requirements (see below). Schedule 4 medicines cannot be advertised directly to the public. Examples:
In an ideal world no person should ever be arrested for possession of these drugs but society should encourage (with or without a stick) treatment for those drugs at the far ends of the scale and they should recognize the damage caused by presently legal drugs before ranting and lying about the affects of other drugs which are shown to cause ...