In medical terms, drug abuse is defined as frequently taking large sums of addiction-producing medicines or addictive substances for purposes other than their intended use.
In medical terms, drug abuse is defined as frequently taking large sums of addiction-producing medicines or addictive substances for purposes other than their intended use. To date, there is no official data on how many people are addicted to drugs, but there are some geographical differences nationwide, generating increasing social and public health problems. Caixin Weekly reporters recently investigated the scale of substance abuse in Shenyang, Liaoning Province and found that most drug users are people under 25, who at most attended junior high school or even below. What’s more, a large proportion are unemployed and come from divorced families. Experts cautioned that it is urgent to tighten supervision on the sales of some uncontrolled drugs and offer a helping hand to those suffering from drug abuse.
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