COMNAVCRUITCOMINST 1131.2J
25 Jul 2023
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a. Alcohol Abuse. The use of alcohol to an extent that it has an adverse effect on the user's
health or behavior, family, community, or the Navy or leads to unacceptable behavior as
evidenced by one or more alcohol induced incidents.
b. Alcohol Dependence or Alcoholism. The compulsive use of alcohol resulting in
physical, psychological or social harm to the user and continued use despite that harm.
c. Alcohol Induced Related Offense. Any adverse adjudication involving alcohol.
d. Alcoholic. An individual who is suffering from the disease of alcoholism.
e. Controlled Substance. Those substances listed in Schedules I-V established by section
202 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, as updated and
republished under that act. Substances listed include, but are not limited to, marijuana, narcotics,
hallucinogens or psychedelics, and specific Depressants and stimulants.
f. Depressants. Sedative-hypnotic drugs of diverse chemical structure all capable of
inducing varying degrees of behavioral depression. depending on dose, can have a sedative,
tranquilizing, hypnotic (sleep), or anesthetizing effect. Most common categories of depressants
include barbiturates (such as Phenobarbital or Secobarbital), tranquilizers, benzodiazepines, or
methaqualone.
g. Detoxification. Medical and psychological management of the alcohol and or drug
withdrawal processes.
h. Drug Abuse. Illegal or non-medical use of, or possession of, drugs.
i. Drug Paraphernalia. All equipment, products, and materials of any kind that are used,
intended for use, or designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting,
manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing,
packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or
otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of law.
j. Drug Dependence. The compulsive use of a chemical or pharmacological agent resulting
in physical, psychological, or social harm and continued use despite that harm. The term does
not include the continuing prescribed use of pharmaceuticals as part of the medical management
of a chronic disease or medical condition.
k. Drug Possession. The exercise of actual physical custody and control, or the exercise of
dominion and control, over a controlled substance. Merely being in the presence of another
person who is in possession of a substance, or merely knowing the location of a substance, does
not constitute possession. The substance does not, however, have to be in the hands of a person
or otherwise on the person. Possession may be established by the fact that the substance was
found on the premises or in a place over which a person exercises dominion and control. Two or
more persons may be in possession of a substance.