... many countries. The world's leading producers include France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This section deals chiefly with the production and sale of drugs in the United States. Sources of drugs The drug, or pharmaceutical, industry produces mostly synthetic drugs. Chemists working in the laboratories of drug companies create these drugs from chemical elements. Other drugs produced by the pharmaceutical industry are obtained from plants, molds, animals, minerals, and genes and bacteria. Chemical laboratories. Chemists have created many of our most valuable Drug abuse is the nonmedical use of a drug that interferes with a healthy and productive life. Drug abuse occurs at all economic levels of society, from the wealthy to the impoverished, and among young people as well as adults. Any drug may be abused, including alcohol, medications, and substances that give off intoxicating fumes. Drug abuse is often called substance abuse. After ...

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