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Drug rehabilitation

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

Contributors in Drug rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation

Designer drug

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

An illegally manufactured chemical whose molecular structure is altered slightly from a parent compound to enhance specific effects. Examples include DMT, DMA, DOM, MDA and MDMA (ecstasy).

Consciousness

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Our own awareness of ourselves and the world; the mental processes that we can perceive; our thoughts and feelings.

Open-label study

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A study in which both doctor and patient know that patients are receiving an experimental drug and what that drug is.

Projection neurons

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Neurons (usually excitatory) that send their axons away from the local vicinity to communicate with other parts of the brain.

Nembutal

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A depressant drug of the barbiturate family used to induce sleep.

Intervention

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The act of interrupting addiction and persuading the addict to enter treatment.

Locus coeruleus

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A group of neurons (nucleus) that is the source of all of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine in the brain.

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