Drug rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation

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

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Drug abuse

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Using illegal drugs; using legal drugs inappropriately. The repeated, high-dose, self-administration of drugs to produce pleasure, to alleviate stress, or to alter or avoid reality (or all three).

Cannabis

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The botanical name for the plant from which marijuana comes.

Dopamine transporter

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A structure that straddles the cell membranes of axon terminals of dopamine-releasing neurons and rapidly removes dopamine from the synapse.

The capacity of the brain to change its structure and function within certain limits. Plasticity underlies brain functions such as learning and allows the brain to generate normal, healthy responses ...

Ether

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

An inhalant. Ether was one of the first anaesthetics to be used in surgery, but has been replaced by more effective, safer anesthetics.

Agonist

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A chemically simple, but psychoactively complex drug commonly used in many beverages. Alcohol is a depressant drug with significant liability for abuse and addiction.