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Drug is defined as any chemical substance other than a food or device that affects the function of living things. Drugs can be used to treat illness, relieve a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
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A drug or demon in ancient Vedic Hinduism, from the Vedic Sanskrit root druh = "be hostile"
The Drûg or Drúedain, a race of Men from Middle-earth in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
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A drug is any substance that can be used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process or processes in the body.
The term is necessarily a vague one, being defined by intent: for example, foods consumed for normal metabolism are not generally considered "drugs", but the same foods consumed for a more specific purpose (such as the use of alcohol as a depressant or caffeine as a stimulant) may be.
Drugs may be classified in many different ways, according to mechanism of action, effects, or even legal status.
LSD was marketed as a psychiatric miracle drug, and became popular recreationally first among a small group of mental health professionals such as psychiatrists and psychologists during the 1950s.
LSD is one of the most potent drugs in common use, and the only drugs that are of a similar potentcy are closely related to LSD in their chemistry, with the exceptions of Salvinorin A and Divinorin C, two chemically-unrelated compounds found in the Salvia Divinorum plant.
As such, the Drug Enforcement Administration holds that LSD meets the following three criteria: it is deemed to have a high potential for abuse; it has no legitimate medical use in treatment; and there is a lack of accepted safety for its use under medical supervision.
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