What are Drugs?

What are Drugs?

Drugs:

Drugs are substances which affect the body in some way. 

That effect might be good or bad.

Drugs are chemicals that change the way a person's body works. Some drugs help you feel better, but drugs also can harm you.

Drugs can help us or might harm us if abused.

Analgesics:

These are drugs that relieve pain.

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, used the leaves and bark of willow trees to ease pain.

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