Frequently Asked and Answered Questions

What is a Drug?
A drug is any natural or synthetic substance that, when absorbed into a body of a living organism, causes changes in mood.

What is a psychotropic drug?
A psychotropic drug is a natural or synthetic substance that acts upon the central nervous system, affecting mental, motor and emotional functions, altering psychic activity and behaviour (by exciting, depressing or disturbing it).

What is Tolerance?
Tolerance is how the organism adapts itself to a certain drug. It is characterized by the gradual decrease of effects, being necessary an increase in dosage to achieve the previous effect. When it reaches the limit, the individual needs use the drug to work and not to enter in a state of suffering.

What is Withdrawal Syndrome?
Withdrawal is a group of unpleasant symptoms the individual experiences upon the abrupt discontinuation of drugs in his organism and which can be translated by intense sweating, pain and spasms, emotional disturbances, hallucination, confusion and trembling, violence crisis against himself or others.

The lack of drug can lead the individual to apparent irrecoverable dementia.

What is physical dependence?
Physical dependence is the organic need on receiving dosage of certain substances which the organism gets used to, and whose deletion causes more or less severe disturbia -the withdrawal syndrome.

What’s psychic dependence?
Psychic dependence is the incontrollable incapacity to stop consuming alcohol/ drugs despite its damages: changes in behaviour, discomfort, obsession for alcohol/drug consumption.