Interesting Facts About Drugs
A drug is basically a substance that is use to treat various ailments from something simple as a headache, allergy, high blood pressure, acid reflux, and many others. Surely, as drugs are used for medicinal purposes it has also found its use in a recreational fashion, getting "high" or getting "stoned".
As many things in life, drugs can be naturally occuring or synthesized (laboratory made). What's the difference, well one is natural, obviously, and it is mainly extracted from plants such as aspirin from a willow bark, digitalis, a heart medication from the Digitalis purpurea plant, and lots more. Of course, synthetic drugs which are made in a lab by the mixing of different chemicals to make a desired chemical drug compound. The advantage of natural is that they are more safe, and has less side effects, whereas synthetic drugs tend to have more adverse effects in that it fixes one problem, and creates another one. This is probably due to impurities, that are not completely removed from the mixing of many chemicals together.