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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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Withdrawal symptoms
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
Physical (body and brain ) and/or psychological (mental/emotional) symptoms that occur after stopping drug use in a person who is physically or emtionally dependent on that drug. Withdrawal symptoms ...
Relapse
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
In general, to fall back to a former condition. Here, resuming the use of a drug one has tried to stop using. Relapse is a common occurrence in many chronic disorders that require behavioural ...
Secondary reinforcers
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
Formerly neutral stimuli that acquire the ability to produce reward through the learned association with a primary reinforcer. Money and praise are secondary reinforcers.
Rush
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
Intense feelings of euphoria a drug produces when it is first consumed. Drug users who inject or smoke drugs describe their rush as being sometimes as intense, or even more intense, than sexual ...
Intervention counsellor
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
A person who conducts an intervention with an addict and the addict's family and close friends.
Triggers
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
Formerly neutral stimuli that have attained the ability to elicit drug craving following repeated pairing with drug use; also called cues.
Decondition
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
The unlearning of classically conditioned responses. Helping addicts identify and neutralise the cues of triggers they developed while they were addicted.
