We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: some wine to be sociable, a cigarette for the nerves.

• 我们生活的社会里,为治疗和社交目的而使用某些物品(药物)的现象非常普遍:为了活跃气氛而喝一点酒,为了提神而抽一支烟,等。