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Definition: Drug Addiction |
Drug AddictionNoun1. An addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Drug AddictionSynonym: white plague (n). (additional references) |
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This dependence appears to be caused by the drugs' action on the central nervous system, where they appear to stimulate the neurotransmitter pathways of the brain by a variety of actions, such as simulating the effects of natural neurotransmitters such as serotonin or dopamine.
When drug stimulation ceases, a variety of withdrawal symptoms may be felt, commonly including mental depression.
The desire for continued drug stimulation, and countering these withdrawal effects, is thought to be what drives drug-users to pursue more stimulants, causing a increasingly destructive cycle of psychological dependency on a stimulant or stimulants.
The most common drug addictions are to legal substances such as
In addition, a large number of other substances are of concern as illegal drugs, the most famous of which are heroin, cocaine, cannabis and MDMA.
In jurisdictions where addictive drugs are illegal, they are generally supplied by criminal drug dealers, often in the form of organized crime. The addict's need to support the high cost of illegal addictive drugs is one of the major causes of crime.
The War on Drugs is a U.S. attempt to reduce the harm caused by drug addiction and crime. Critics of the War on Drugs argue that like Prohibition, the 1920s attempt to control alcohol, the War on Drugs may actually be counter-productive. Instead, they call for the total or partial legalization of currently illegal addictive drugs.
Classes of drugs regulated by the U.S. Controlled Substances Act:
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Movie/TV Titles | Drug Addiction (1951) | |
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Health | The path to drug addiction begins with the act of taking drugs. (references) | |
Problems associated with an individual's drug addiction can vary significantly. (references) | ||
A variety of scientifically based approaches to drug addiction treatment exists. (references) | ||
Business | These women face a high risk of drug addiction, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases. (references) | |
Children | Taiwan | According to some reports, brothel owners, to prevent child prostitutes from escaping, use violence, drug addiction, and other forms of coercion. (references) |
Hong Kong | In 2000 there were 80 youths under the age of 16 who were incarcerated: 29 in prison, 19 in training centers, 27 in detention centers, and 5 in drug addiction treatment centers. (references) | |
Lithuania | During the year, the ombudsman called for streamlining the children's rights protection system and mobilizing central government and local authorities to cope with growing juvenile delinquency and spreading drug addiction. (references) | |
Human Rights | Portugal | There were persistent reports regarding the mistreatment of prisoners by prison guards, drug addiction in prisons, and a lack of heat in winter. (references) |
Brazil | The Sao Paulo Secretary of Penitentiary Administration has launched new training programs for both directors and workers in penitentiaries, including instruction in human rights, infectious diseases, drug addiction, and ethics. (references) | |
Iceland | Human rights monitors have expressed concern about the use of illegal drugs by some inmates at Litla Hraun Prison and about the lack of social services to help inmates overcome drug addiction and prepare them for eventual release. (references) | |
Women | Iran | However, the law granted custody of minor children to the mother in certain divorce cases in which the father is proven unfit to care for the child, such as in cases in which the father suffers from drug addiction or has a criminal record. (references) |
Worker Rights | Switzerland | Traffickers often forced many victims into prostitution, and in many cases subjected them to physical and sexual violence, threatened them or their families, encouraged drug addiction, withheld their documents, and incarcerated them. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "drug addiction"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إدمان المخدرات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | toksikomani (toxicomania), stofafhaengighed, narkomani (narcomania, narcoticism, narcotism), eufomani. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | drugverslaving, drugsverslaving (toxicomania), addictio (drug habit, drug habituation), addictie (addiction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toxicomanie (drug abuse, drug misuse), narcomanie, asservissement de la drogue, addiction. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rauschgiftsucht (narcomania, narcoticism, narcotism), Drogensucht (toxicomania). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τοξικομανία (toxicomania). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tossicodipendenza (toxicomania). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 麻薬中' , 麻薬常' . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | まやくじょうしゅう, まやくちゅうどく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugdray addictionay viciação na droga, toxicomania (toxicomania), toxicodependencia (toxicomania). (various references) narkomanija (narcotism). (various references) drogadiccion, drogadicción (drug habit, drug habituation, toxicomania), toxicomanía (toxicomania), adiccion a las drogas, adiccíon (toxicomania). (various references) uyuşturucu bağımlılığı (dope-addiction, dope-habit, drug dependence, narcotism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-d-g-i-i-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-4 letters: addicting, addiction, adducting, adduction, granitoid, indicator, outadding, outdaring, outracing, outriding, traducing. | |
-5 letters: actinoid, addition, adducing, adductor, antidrug, auditing, audition, cardioid, courting, crudding, curating, diatonic, duration, granitic, indictor, inductor, iodating, radioing, rigatoni, rigaudon, tornadic, uranitic. | |
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