Dr, Fola Adebowale, a healthcare consultant at 1st Recon Healthcare Center in Lagos explained the differences between drug addition and drug abuse

He said, "Drug addiction is when someone is using a drug as a way of life, if they do not get that drug they can’t do anything else. It's like the way people are addicted to cocaine and heroin, they need it to function in their everyday activities.”

According to him, drug abuse is the misuse of drug that can even come from a medical professional or the general everyday person.

He said, "If a medical professional gives a patient an overdose that is drug abuse. So, an abuse can occur without even addicted and using drug to commit suicide is an abuse of the drug. More often than not, it is the people that get addicted to drug that abuse it. Abuse of drug can be larger much more than addiction.”

The doctor continued that how a drug effects an individual is dependent on a variety of factors including body size, general health, the amount and strength of the drug.

Speaking further on the two deadly acts, addiction and abuse, he said, “Anyone of the two can kill depending on what is going on. The parameters doesn't define which one kills faster, it defines how the person react to it at the moment.”

He continued that, “Drug addiction is much more than Heroin and Cocaine and some other illegal drugs. Only that we all know the regular and popular one that will see and know of, but any drug can cause addiction. The normal pain killer which is paracetamol can be abused as simple as it is.”

He said why people are so addicted to drug abuse depends but, ...

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