Drug rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation

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

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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 ...

long-term effects

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The effects seen when a drug is used repeatedly over weeks, months, or years. These effects may outlast drug use.

valium

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A depressant drug of the benzodiazepine family that relieves anxiety.

phencyclidine (PCP)

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

PCP has an array of effects. Originally developed as an anesthetic, it may act as an hallucinogen, stimulant, or sedative.

messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A molecule that carries the genetic code from DNA to the parts of the cell that use the code to make components of the cell.

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 ...