The Socio-Cultural Interpretations of Drug Abuse and Addiction

The cultural contexts plays an essential role in defining the   reality of drugs or narcotics such as planting drugs and addiction seem to be playing an interrelated social, religious, medical and historical role in different cultures. Some historical points, for example indicate that lots of cultures planted drugs. We see in different cultures, this came as a part of the rituals and practices either in religious customs or the socio-cultural practices and folkloric medicine as a part of daily routine or practices; thus using them daily in different interactions and collective events.
Drugs are used for other purposes as well as when there are some cultural events; opium is taken in wedding festivals; funerals in entertaining guests' feasts or certain occasions; and may be used in food as well as in folkloric medicine too to treat some ailments.
These cultural  factors  are responsible - one way or another - for  the addiction phenomenon that made it  hard to eradicate  and it  seems that no community on the  surface of  the earth was  able to  escape from it yet.