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| Drugs that affect feelings, thoughts, perceptions, or behavior. |
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| Drugs whose manufacture, sale, or possession is illegal. |
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| Drugs whose manufacture, sale, or possession is legal. |
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| A condition in which an individual feels a compulsive need to continue taking a drug. In the process, the drug assumes an increasingly central role in the individual’s life. |
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| A chemical substance that, when taken into the body, alters the structure or functioning of the body in some way, excluding those nutrients considered to be related to normal functioning. |
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| Referring to the motivation of a drug user who takes the drug for a specific purpose other than getting “high”. |
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| Referring to the motivation of a drug user who takes the drug only to get “high” or achieve some pleasurable effect. |
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| Drug-taking behavior in which a prescription or over-the-counter drug is used inappropriately. |
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| Drug-taking behavior resulting in some form of physical, mental, or social impairment. |
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| The philosophy and practice of healing in which diagnosis or treatment is based on trance-like states, on the part of either the healer or the patient. |
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| A healer whose diagnosis or treatment of patients is based at least in part on trances. These trances are frequently induced by hallucinogenic drugs. |
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| An Egyptian document, dated approximately 1500 BC containing more than eight hundred prescriptions for common ailments and diseases. |
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| Any change in a person’s condition after taking a drug, based solely on that person’s beliefs about the drug rather than on any physical effects of the drug. |
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| Historically, a drug or combination of drugs sold through peddlers, shops, or mail-order advertisements. |
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| An anti-psychotic (antischizophrenia) drug. Brand name is Thorazine. |
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| The scientific study of the nervous system, undertaken as a collaborative effort among researchers from many scientific disciplines. |
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| Factors in an individual’s life that increase the likelihood of involvement with drugs. |
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| Factors in an individual’s life that decrease the likelihood of involvement with drugs and reduce the impact that any risk factor might have. |
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| Schedule I classification |
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| Marijuana remains officially classified by the US government as a drug with a high potential for abuse and a … |
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| Depending upon the …. of the individual, drug use can be considered either recreational or instrumental. |
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| Identified as the major active ingredient in opium in the 1800s. |
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| Social pressure from … resulted in the national prohibition of alcohol consumption in the United States from 1920 to 1933. |
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| Risk Factors for drug-taking behavior in adolescence include a tendency toward ... within society and the influence of drug-using peers. |
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| Protective Factor for drug-taking behavior include an intact home environment, a ... educational experience, and conventional peer relationships. |
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| Predictions regarding future drugs and drug-taking behaviors are largely founded on … from the past. |
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| MDMA (Ecstacy), GHB, Ketamine, Rohypnol, Methamphetamine, and LSD. |
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| Prescription and OTC drugs |
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| Relatively high prevalence rates for recreational use of … among young people have raised some serious concerns. |
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