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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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nembutal
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
A depressant drug of the barbiturate family used to induce sleep.
intervention
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
The act of interrupting addiction and persuading the addict to enter treatment.
locus coeruleus
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
A group of neurons (nucleus) that is the source of all of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine in the brain.
Quaalude
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
The trademark Quaalude for the addictive sedative and hypnotic agent methaqualone. Methaqualone was developed in the 1960s by William H. Rorer, Inc. By 1972, "luding out" -- taking methaqualone with ...
Paul Broca
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
The scientist who identified the area in the brain responsible for producing speech, now called Broca's area.
Carl Wernicke
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
The scientist who discovered the area of the cerebral cortex that allows us to understand language. People with damage in this area of the cortex are unable to understand spoken or written words.
China white
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
A designer drug" that was an opiate derivative. Some batches contained a neurotoxin called MPTP, which killed neurons that make dopamine, producing symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease.
