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DRUG USER [1 record]

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Record 1 2018-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
OBS

Person-first language ... acknowledges that a person's condition, illness or behaviour is not that person's defining or primary characteristic. For example, "a person who uses drugs" or "a person living with HIV."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Drogas y toxicomanía
CONT

Es un error afirmar que todo consumidor de drogas sea un delincuente. El que algunos consumidores se vean involucrados en problemas delictivos, no quiere decir que todos lo sean.

OBS

Todas las personas que experimentan, prueban o consumen ocasionalmente no son dependientes (drogadictos).

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