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Recreational Drug Use or Recreational Drugs or Recreational Drug Abuse or Abusing Recreational Drugs means humans excessively using psychoactive drugs to -

(i)         achieve pleasurable effects; and/or

(ii)        provide a temporary high; and/or

(iii)       achieve a release from their norm. 

Popular substances for recreational use include alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, GHB, betel nut, ketamine, khat, kratom, barbiturate, benzodiazepine, opioids - even caffeine. 

Most recreational drugs used to excess for a lengthy period, often referred to as Substance Abuse, result in mental and physical degeneration in the user.

Section  3.IV.(c) "2008 Report on social cost of drugs - "The costs of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug abuse to Australian Society in 2004/05Collins & Lapsley reports that of the total social cost of drug abuse in 2004/05 of $55.2 billion -

*        alcohol accounted for $15.3 billion (27.3 per cent of the unadjusted total),

*        tobacco for $31.5 billion (56.2 per cent), and
*        illicit drugs $8.2 billion (14.6 per cent).

See also Crave Harmful Habitual Stress Releases.