Answer to Question #64756 in General Chemistry for Pathak akash bramhdin

Question

Diffrentiate between drug and medicine

Answer 1

Answer:
1. Drugs can stupefy the mind unlike medicines.
2. Drugs have a potential of addiction while medicines (in the general sense) don’t lead to such.
3. The term “drugs” (either for therapeutic or non-therapeutic purposes) is nowadays thought to have a more negative connotation.
4. Drugs are substances that can still cure diseases to some extent but can have severe adverse effects if used more than what’s necessary.
5. Medicine can be a field of study whose graduates are called physicians or M.D.’s.