What does DOC stand for?

The neurons in the brain literally become dependent on the alcohol or drug of choice to function normally.

I can accept that people have drug habits and problems, and that these need to be fed, either by treatment through the health system or, more probably, through getting their hands on their drug of choice.

This means that you completely stop using your drug of choice so that you have no way to continue to feed addictions.

Back in the 1970''s "Mexican mud" (heroin) was the drug of choice on the streets of America.

And cocaine is fast catching up with cannabis as the drug of choice for teenagers, figures out today show.

Underage drinking presents crucial public health issues The drug of choice among children and adolescents, the abuse of alcohol is associated with the deaths of approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 annually as a result of motor vehicle crashes, unintentional injuries, and homicides and suicides, according to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism''s Underage Drinking Research Initiative (NIAAA) Underage drinking presents crucial public health issues.

Unlike cocaine, it is the drug of choice for those in the most deprived areas and while there has been much talk about the use of coke by the middle classes the heroin problem has been largely ignored.

But doctors say increased numbers of cases involving heroin are making an appearance, and at least one city drug rehabilitation centre has reported that heroin has overtaken tik as the drug of choice.