European Scientific Journal ESJ

Daily continuous drug use becomes a chronic disease, and this causes the person to lose control over his actions and over his own life.The most used nomenclatures/terminologies when referring to drug users is "addict".The desire to use drugs overrides all the activities and responsibilities that the drug addict must carry out in his daily life.The physical and psychosocial destruction of the drug user is quick and visible to all those around him and who lives with him daily.In Portugal, drug addicts, despite knowing that they are not criminalized for drug use, know and feel that this is not a socially accepted practice.In this sense, one of the ways that these people defend themselves from social criticism or…