UNDERSTANDING DRUGS

Stands for Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic and other addictive material. Terminology familiar drugs used by law enforcement officials, such as the police (including the National Narcotics Agency), prosecutors, judges and correctional officers. Besides drugs, another term which refers to the third substance is a drug that is Narcotic, psychotropic and addictive substances. The term more commonly used drugs by medical practitioners and rehabilitation. But at its core meaning of both terms are still referring to the three types of the same substance.

According to Law No.22 of 1997 on Narcotic Drugs is the sense mentioned Narcotics are "substances or drugs derived from plants or no plants either synthetic or semi-synthetic that can cause a decrease or change in consciousness, loss of taste, reduce to eliminate pain, and can create dependency. "

Psychotropic is "any substance or drug, either natural or synthetic non narcotic, a potent psychoactive through selective effect on the central nervous system that causes typical changes in mental activity and behavior. "

Other addictive ingredients are "substances or other materials instead of narcotics and psychotropic drugs that affect the workings of the brain and can lead to dependency"

Nevertheless, it is important note that not all types of narcotics and psychotropic substances banned its use. Because quite a lot of narcotics and psychotropic also has huge benefitsin the field of medical and for the sake of knowledge development .
According to Law No.22 of 1997 and Law No. 5 of 1997, narcotics and psychotropic substances included in Category I are the types of substances classified as illegal. As a result of these illegalnya status, anyone who possesses, manufactures, use, distribute and / or distribute narcotics and psychotropic Group I may be subject to punishment in accordance with legal provisions
applicable.