The potential for harm depends only on the drug is its capacity for harm as possible to the consumer or his entourage. The effects and risks it generates varies from one drug to another, but they also depend on consumers, its sensitivity and its physical and psychic.
Each drug has a potential for harm in three areas:
- Potential intoxicants
- Potential agresogene
- Addictive potential.
Potential intoxicant:
Each drug has different degrees of potential poisonous somatic (physical), that is to say capable of damaging some organs, up to the death by overdose for some of them, and potentially poisonous psychic.
The risks are detailed below.
Potential agressogène:
Clean stimulants that suppress inhibitions and give a feeling of omnipotence, but also alcohol and certain performance-enhancing drugs. It led to overestimate his abilities and his appreciation of the danger and proceed to act where acts of violence (assault, domestic and family violence) and accidents (traffic accidents, domestic or professional).