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| A disorder marked by the pursuit of extreme thinness and by extreme loss of weight |
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| THe cessation of menstrual cycles |
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| A disorder marked by frequent eating binges that are followed by forced vomitting or other extreme compensatory behaviors to avoid gaining weight. |
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| An episode of uncontrollable eating during which a person ingests very large amounts of food. On Average have 10 per week. |
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| A family system in which members are overinvolved with each other's affairs and overconcerned about each other's welfare. |
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| A part of the brain that helps regulate various bodily functions, including eating and hunger. |
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| The weight level that a person is prediposed to maintain, controlled in part by the hypothalamus. |
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| A pattern of behavior in which people rely on drug excessively and regularly, bringing damage to their relationships, functioning poorly at work, or putting themselves or others in danger. |
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| A patter of behavior in which people organize their lives around a drug, possibly building a tolerance to it or experiencing withdrawal symptoms when they stop taking it, or both. Also called an addiction. |
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| The adjustment that the brain and the body make to regular use of certain drugs so that ever larger doses are needed to achieve the earlier effects. |
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| Unpleasant, sometimes dangerous reactions that may occur when people who use a drug regularly stop taking or reduce their dosage of the durg. |
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| Any beverage containing ethyl alcohol, including beer, wine and liquor |
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| A dramatic withdrawal reaction experienced by some people who are alcohol-dependent. It consists of confusion, cloudied consciousness, and terrifying visual hallucinations. |
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| A cluster of problems in a child, including low birth weight, irregularities in the head and face, alcohol intake by the mouther during pregnancy |
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| A drug used in low doses to reduce anxiety and in higher doses to help people sleep. |
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| Addictive sedative-hypnotic drugs used to reduce anxiety or help people fall asleep. |
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| The most common group of antianxeity drugs, which includes Valium and Xanax. |
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| Opium or any of the drugs derived from opium, including morphine, heroin, and codeine. |
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| A highly addictive substance made from sap of the opium poppy. |
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| One of the most addictive substances derived from opium, illegal in the US under all circumstances. |
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| Neurotransmitters that help relieve pain and reduce emotional tension. THey are sometimes referred to as the body's own opioids. |
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| An addictive stimulant obtained from the coca plant. It is the most powerful of natural stimulants known. |
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| A technique for ingesting cocaine i which the pure cocaine basic alkaloid is chemically separated from processed cocaine, vaporized by heat from a flame, and inhaled with a pipe. |
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| A powerful, ready to smoke free base cocaine. |
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| A stimualnt drug that is manufactured in the laboratory. |
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| A substance that causes powerful changes primarily in sensroy perception, including strengthening perceptions and producing illusions and hallucinations. |
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| A hallucinogenic drug derived from ergot alkaloids. |
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| LSD induced sensory and emotional changed that recu long after the drug has left the body. |
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| Drugs produced from the varieties of the hemp plant Cannabis satica. They cause a mixtrue of hallucinogenic, depressant, and stimulant effects. |
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| One of the cannabis drugs, derived fromt he buds, leaves, and flowering tops of the hemp plant. |
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| The main active ingredient of cannabis substances. |
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| In pharmacology, an increase of effects that occurs when more than one substance is acting on the body at the same time. |
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| Polysubstance-Related Disorder |
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| A long-term pattern of maladaptive behavior centered on abuse of or dependence on a combination of drugs. |
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| A lopamine-rich pathway in the brain that produces feelings of pleasure when activated. |
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| Reward=Deficiency Syndrome |
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| A condition, suspected to be present in some indibiduals, in which the brain's reward center is not readily activated by the usual events in their luves. |
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| A treathment in which clients are repeatedly presented with unpleasant stimuli while performing undesirably behaviors such as taking a drug. |
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| Systematic and medically supervised withdrawal from a drug. |
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| Drugs that block or changed the effects of an addictive drug. |
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| Methadone Maintenance Program |
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| An approach to treating heroin dependence in which clients are given legally and medically supervised doses of a substitute drug, methadone. |
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| Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) |
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| A self-help organization that provides support and guidance for persons who abuse alcohol or are dependent on it. |
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| Residential Treatment Center |
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| A place where people forerly dependent on drugs llive, work and socialize in a drug-free environment. |
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| A disorder marked by persisten inability to function normally in some areas of the human sexual response cycle. |
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| The pase of the sexual response cycle consisting of an urge to have sex, sexual fantasies, and sexual attraction to others. |
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| A disorder marked by a lack of interest in sex and hence a low level of sexual activity. |
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| A disorder characterized by an aversion to and avoidance of genital sexual interplay. |
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| The pase of the sexual response cycle marked by changed in the pelvic region, general physical arousal, and in creases in heart rate, muscle tension, blood pressure, and rate of breathing. |
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| Female Sexual Arousal Disorder |
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| A female dysfunction marked by a persistent in ability to attain sexual excitement, including adequate lubrication or genital swelling, during sexual activity. |
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| A dysfunction in which a man repeatedly fails to attain or maintain an erection during sexual activity. |
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| Nocturnal Penile Tumescence |
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| The fear of performing inadequately and a related tension experienced during sex. |
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| A state of mind that some people experience during sex, focusing on their sexual performance to such an extenet that their performance and their enjoyment are reduced. |
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| A male dysfuntion characterized by a repeated inability to reach orgasm or long delays in reaching orgasm after normal sexual excitement. |
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| A sysfunction in which a woman rarely has an orgasm or repeatedly experiences a very delayed one. |
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| A condition marked by involuntary contractions of the muscles around the outer third of the vagina, preventing entry of the penis. |
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| A disorder in which a person experiences severe pain in the genitals during sexual activity. |
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| Directed Masturbation Training |
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| A sex therapy approach that teaches women with female arousal or orgasmic disorders how to masturbate effectively and eventually to reach orgasm during sexual intercourse. |
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| Disorders characterized by recurrent and intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors involving nonhuman objects, children, nonconsenting adults, or experience of suffereing or humiliation. |
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| A paraphilia consisting of recurrent and intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors that involve the use of a nonliving object, often to the exclusion of all other stimuli. |
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| A behavioral treatment in which a client maturbates for a very long period of time while fantasizing in detail about a paraphilic object. |
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| A procedure for treting certain paraphilias by teaching client to respond to new, more appropriate sources of sexual stimulation. |
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| A paraphilia consisting of repeated and intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors that involve dressing in clothes of the opposite sex. |
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| A paraphilia in which persons have repeated sexually arousing urges or fantasies about exposing their genitals to another person, and may act upon those urges. |
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| A paraphilia in which a person has repeated and intense sexual desires to boserve unsuspecting people in secret as they undress or to spy on couples having intercourse, and may act upon these desires. |
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| A paraphilia consisting of repeated and intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors that involve touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person. |
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| A paraphilia in which a person has reated and intense sexual urges or fantasies about watching, touching, or engaging in sexual acts with prepubescent children, and may carry out these urges or fantasies. |
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| A paraphilia characterized by repeated and intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors tha tinvolve being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer. |
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| A paraphilia characterized by repeated and intense sexual urges, fantasies, and behaviors that involve inflicting suffering on others. |
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| A surgical procedure that changes a person's sex organs and features, and, in turn, sexual identity. |
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| A psychotic disorder in which person, social, and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perception, disturbed though processes,unusual emotions, and motor abnormalities. |
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| A state in which a person loses contact with reality in key ways. |
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| Sumptoms of schizophrenia that seem to be excesses of or bizarre additions to normal thoughts, emotions, or behaviors. |
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| A strange false belief firmly held despite evidence to the contrary. |
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| A disturbance in the production and organization of thought. |
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| A commong thinking disturbance in schizophrenia, characterized by rapid shifts from one topic of conversation to another. |
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| The experience of sights, sounds, or other perception in the absence of external stimuli. |
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| Display of emotions that are unsuited to the situation ; a symptom of schizophrenia. |
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| Symptoms of Schizo. that seem to be deficits in normal though, emotions, or behavior. |
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| A decrease in speech or speech content. Also known as poverty speech. |
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| A marked lack of expressed emotions. |
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| A symptom marked by apathy and an inability to start or complete a course of action. |
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| A pattern of extreme psychomotor symptoms found in some forms of schizo. which may include catatonic stupor, rigidity, or posturing. |
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| A thryp characterized mainly by positive symptoms, such as delusions, hallucinations, and certain formal thought disorders. |
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| A type characterized mainly by negative symptoms such as flat affect, poverty of speech, and loss of volition. |
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| The theory that schizo. results from excessive activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine. |
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| Drugs that help correct grossly confused or distorted thinking. |
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| A new group of antipsychotic drugs whose biological action is different from that of the traditional antipsychotic drug. |
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| A type of mother-supposedly cold, domineering, and uninterested in the needs of others-who was once thought to cause schizo. in her child. |
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| The general level of criticism, disapproval, and hostility expressed in a family. |
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| Unwanted movements such as sever shaking, bizarre looking grimaces, twisting of the body, and extreme restlessness, sometimes produce by conventional antipsychotic drugs. |
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| Extrapyramidal effects that appear in some patients after they have taken conventional antipsychotic drugs for an extended time. |
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