Technically, any substance other than food that alters our
bodily or mental functioning is a drug. Many people mistaken believe the term
drug 62. ______ refers only to some sort of
medicine or an illegal chemical taken with drug 63.
______ addicts. They don’t realize that familiar substances such as alcohol
and tobacco are also not drugs. This is why the more neutral term substance
is now 64. ______ used by many physician and psychologists. The
phrase "substance abuse" is 65. ______ often used
instead of "drug abusive" to make clear that substances such as
66. ______ alcohol and tobacco can be just as harmfully used as
heroin and cocaine. We 67. ______ live in a society
which the medicinal and social use of substances is pervasive 68.
______ : an aspirin to quite a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to
get 69. ______ going in the morning, a cigarette
for the nervous. When do these socially 70.
______ acceptable and apparently constructive use of a substance become
misuses First of all, most substances taken in excess will produce positive
effects such 71. ______ as poisoning or intense perpetual distortions.
Repeated use of a substance can also lead to physical addiction or substance
dependence.