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Drug is a chemical compound which, when taken into the body, changes the body’s metabolism. But obviously not everyone who takes drugs is an addict. The inherent overpowering nature of the drug per se, was that no person could resist the pull of the drugs: the one shot and you are gone syndrome. After the 1940’s (especially in the USA) this biological disease concept was revised. The old addiction–in–the–drug model considered the source of addiction as being in the drug itself. The new theory of addiction as being inherent in people who were susceptible to addiction to drugs because of (unknown) factors in their personality is being mooted.

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