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... > contexts > demography > vital statistics > mortality > cause of death > drug use and abuse
... > contexts > population characteristics > health > public health > epidemiologic measurements > demography > vital statistics > mortality > cause of death > drug use and abuse
... > contexts > population characteristics > demography > vital statistics > mortality > cause of death > drug use and abuse
... > contexts > population characteristics > health > public health > epidemiologic methods > data collection > vital statistics > mortality > cause of death > drug use and abuse

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drug use and abuse  

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  • The use of psychoactive substances is a common feature of all human societies, and these drugs have been used throughout human history for medicinal purposes, pain control, religious rituals, and personal pleasure. Notwithstanding the “war on drugs” metaphor of recent decades, drug use and abuse are not problems of late modernity but rather problems from antiquity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Drug Use and Abuse]

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