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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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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.
route of administration
Health care; Drug rehabilitation
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 ...
