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