in the Criminal Justice System
. Any drug (whether medicinally prescribed or recreationally taken) will have adverse consequences on the body. Often we refer to these as side-effects when discussing doctor-prescribed medications, or as negative effects when discussing illicit street drugs. Either way, these effects are the consequences of introducing a substance other than food into the human body. These consequences may be physical, neurological or psychological, and they sometimes lead to dependence on the substance.
The need to consider whether or not the benefit of prescribing a medicinal drug to a
patient outweighs the potential side effect is known as the cost: benefit ratio consideration. Questions to consider would include: What ...
