Question

defferntiate between drugs and medicines​

Answer 1

Answer:

All medicines are drugs but all drugs are not medicines. Medicines generally are not addictive in nature, unlike drugs. Medicines are made for the treatment of a particular disease, while drug is often considered as narcotic, a stimulant or hallucinogen. Medicines never cause stupefaction while drugs do.

Answer 2

Answer:

A drug, in contrast to a medicine, can have a positive or negative effect on a patient. For example, heroin is a drug, in that it's a substance that causes a specific biological effect. Heroin is not, though, categorised as a substance that “prevents, alleviates or cures a symptom, ailment or disease state”