Drug rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation

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

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Enabling

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Things that people who are close to addicts do unconsciously that either encourage, or at least do not interfere with, the addict's drug use.

The way a drug is put into the body. Eating, drinking, inhaling, injecting, snorting, smoking, and absorbing a drug through mucous membranes all are routes of administration used to consume drugs of ...

Methadone

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A long-lasting synthetic opiate used to treat cancer pain and heroin addiction.

Psychedelic drug

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Drugs that distort perception, thought, and feeling. This term is typically used to refer to drugs with actions like those of LSD.

Stroke

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The blockade or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. This prevents oxygen from reaching neurons and may result in their death.

Limbic system

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A set of brain structures that generates our feelings, emotions, and motivations. It is also important in learning and memory.

Dynorphins

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Peptides with opiate-like effects that are made by neurons and used as neurotransmitters; one of the endogenous opiods that binds to opiate receptors.