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original: Alcohol is legal. Many other drugs are not. Apart from that, there is no difference except in people's perception.

Improved: medical definition of a drug is, "any substance or compound, which is used or intended to be used, to modify or explore, the pathological state or physiological system, for the BENEFIT of the recipient.

so, drugs are NOT equal to narcotics, though some drugs (or medicines, as u say) do have an abuse potential

alcohol, on the other hand, has no medical indications.

also, both drugs (that is, medicines) and alcohol are legal.

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