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 ...

double-blind trials

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Studies of an experimental drug in which neither patient nor doctor knows whether the patient is receiving the experimental drug or some alternative (which might be a placebo if no treatment already ...

cholinergic

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The adjective derived from acetylcholine. A neuron that contains acetylcholine is a cholinergic neuron.

basal ganglia

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The large, complex set of brain structures involved in generating movements, in some cognitive functions, and in some emotional and motivational activities. The basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex ...