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| Heroin | The potent, widely abused opiate that produces a profound addiction. It consists of two morphine molecules linked together chemically.
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| Hormone | A chemical substance formed in glands in the body and carried in the blood to organs and tissues, where it influences function, structure, and behavior.
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| Inhalants | Any drug administered by breathing in its vapors. Most inhalants are organic solvents such as glue and paint thinner, or anesthetic gases such as ether and nitrous oxide.
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| Inpatient treatment | Residential treatment for drug addiction in a hospital or clinic.
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| Intervention | The act of interrupting addiction and persuading the addict to enter treatment.
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| Intervention counselor | A person who conducts an intervention with an addict and the addict's family and close friends.
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| Intoxication | Being under the influence of, and responding to, the acute effects of a psychoactive drug. Intoxication typically includes feelings of pleasure, altered emotional responsiveness, altered
perception, and impaired judgment and performance.
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| Long-term effects | The effects seen when a drug is used repeatedly over weeks, months, or years. These effects may outlast drug use.
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| LSD | An hallucinogenic drug that acts on the serotonin receptor.
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| Marijuana | A psychoactive drug made from the leaves of the cannabis plant. It is usually smoked but can also be eaten. See Cannabis.
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| Marinol | The trade name of dronabinol, a synthetic version of THC used as medicine.
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| MDA | One of several hallucinogenic \"designer drugs\" with psychedelic properties that are manufactured by basement chemists.
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| MDMA (Ecstasy) | A hallucinogenic designer drug" with psychedelic and stimulant properties.
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| Medication | A drug that is used to treat an illness or disease according to established medical guidelines.
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| Mescaline | A naturally occurring hallucinogenic drug that acts on the serotonin receptor.
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| Metabolic enzymes | Enzymes that break down or inactivate drugs in the body; also, enzymes that break down food and produce energy.
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| Metabolic tolerance | The body\'s increased ability to eliminate a drug, thereby making a given dose less effective.
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| Metabolism | The processes by which the body breaks things down or alters them so they can be eliminated.
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| Metabolites | The products that result when enzymes in the body break things down or alter them to produce energy or eliminate them.
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| Methadone | A long-lasting synthetic opiate used to treat cancer pain and heroin addiction.
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| Methamphetamine | A commonly abused, potent stimulant drug that is part of a larger family of amphetamines.
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| Methylphenidate (Ritalin®): | Methylphenidate is a central nervous system stimulant. It has effects similar to, but more potent than, caffeine and less potent than amphetamines. It has a notably calming and "focusing"
effect on those with ADHD, particularly children.
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| Morphine | Morphine The most potent natural opiate compound produced by the opium poppy.
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| MPTP | A neurotoxin, found in a designed opiate called China white, which kills the neurons that make dopamine, producing a set of symptoms that look like Parkinson's disease.
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| Narconon | A non-religious, non-profit drug rehabilitation program using technology developed by author L. Ron Hubbard. The Narconon program was originally organized in Arizona State Prison in 1966 by William Benitez, an inmate who was himself a drug addict. He applyed basic principles regarding self awareness and self assurance contained in books by L. Ron Hubbard and, by doing so, completely cured his own addiction to heroin. Mr Benitez then went on to help twenty other inmates do the same. Today there are Narconon centers in 45 countries.
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