Drug rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation

The processes of medical and/or psychotherapeutic treatment for the dependency on alcohol or narcotic drugs.

Industry: Health care

Add a new term

Contributors in Drug rehabilitation

Become a Contributors

Drug rehabilitation

Periaqueductal grey matter

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A set of nuclei deep within the brain stem that are involved with visceral functions. It also plays a role in the development of physical dependence on opiates.

Metabolism

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The processes by which the body breaks things down or alters them so they can be eliminated; also, the processes by which the body extracts energy and nutrients from food.

Skinner box

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A device that automatically released food in response to an animal manipulating a specific object (e.g., pressing a bar) to test "operant conditioning", named after the classic experiments of ...

Theophylline

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A chemical cousin of caffeine that is found in tea.

Outpatient treatment

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

NonResidential Treatment for drug addiction. Patients live at home, often work, and come to a clinic for treatment.

Any of the psychoactive drugs that originate from the opium poppy or that have a chemical structure like the drugs derived from opium. Such drugs include opium, codeine, and morphine (derived from ...