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/^t/Both teenage and adult drug addictions constitute a very dangerous and widespread social phenomenon. More and more people, not being able to keep pace with the modern way of living, resort to drugs. Drugs seem to many people to be the best remedy for stress, sorrow, complexes, pain and other problems and misfortunes. This is so because drugs decrease people's sensitivity and strain. People, however, do not seem to keep it in their minds that the delusion is temporary and that when the drug stops working it is even harder to accept the reality.