Medicine, however, is our term for a drug when that drug is used to cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent a disease. Many people become addicted to drugs even when used as medicine. ... Here is where the lines of addiction and medicine become blurry and begin to come together until the medication is the addiction
Medicotherapeutic approach vs Pharmacotherapeutic approach
Therapeutics: In medicine, the branch that deals specifically with the treatment of disease and the art and science of healing. In pharmacology, therapeutics accordingly refers to the use of drugs and the method of their administration in the treatment of disease.
