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Aspects of training and development have been linked to ancient civilizations around the world. [3] Early training-related articles appeared in journals marketed to enslavers in the Antebellum South [4] and training approaches and philosophies were discussed extensively by Booker T. Washington. [5]
Drug education is the planned provision of information, guidelines, resources, and skills relevant to living in a world where psychoactive substances are widely available and commonly used for a variety of both medical and non-medical purposes, some of which may lead to harms such as overdose, injury, infectious disease (such as HIV or hepatitis C), or addiction.
The definition of recovery remains divided and subjective in drug rehabilitation, as there are no set standards for measuring recovery. [35] The Betty Ford Institute defined recovery as achieving complete abstinence as well as personal well-being [36] while other studies have considered "near abstinence" as a definition. [37]
Self-administration of addictive drugs has been studied using humans, [1] non-human primates, [2] mice, [3] invertebrates such as ants, and, most commonly, rats. Self-administration of heroin and cocaine is used to screen drugs for possible effects in reducing drug-taking behavior, especially reinstatement of drug-seeking after extinction ...
After training the patient to respond to hypnosis, LSD would be administered, and during the onset phase of the drug the patient would be placed into a state of trance. Levine and Ludwig found the combination of these techniques to be more effective than the use of either of these two components separately. [106] [page needed]
David John Nutt (born 16 April 1951) is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. [6]
A protein is predicted to be "druggable" if it is a member of a protein family [4] for which other members of the family are known to be targeted by drugs (i.e., "guilt" by association). While this is a useful approximation of druggability, this definition has limitations for two main reasons: (1) it highlights only historically successful ...
Thus, the endocrine system is a critical focus of psychopharmacology because 1) drugs can alter the secretion of many hormones; 2) hormones may alter the behavioral responses to drugs; 3) hormones themselves sometimes have psychoactive properties; and 4) the secretion of some hormones, especially those dependent on the pituitary gland, is ...