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- ALKALOID:
- Any organic agent isolated from plants that contains nitrogen and reacts with an acid to form a salt.
- DEPENDENCE:
- A psychological compulsion to use a drug that is not linked to physical addiction.
- EUPHORIA:
- An exaggerated feeling of well being.
- NARCOTIC:
- A natural or synthetic drug that has properties similar to opium or opium derivatives.
- NEUROPATHIC:
- Relating to a disease of the nerves.
- OPIATE:
- A drug originating in the opium poppy, such as codeine and morphine.
- OPIOID:
- A drug, hormone, or other chemical substance having sedative or narcotic effects similar to those containing opium or its derivatives; a natural brain opiate.
- SYNAPSE:
- The gap between communicating nerve cells.
- THALAMUS:
- The central area of the brain below the cerebral lobes that relays messages from the spine to the forebrain.
- TOLERANCE:
- A condition in which higher and higher doses of a drug are needed to produce the...
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