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| Term | Definition |
| Habilitate | The process of teaching the skills needed for successful living. Habilitation helps people recover from addiction by teaching life skills that were never learned because drug use interfered with the learning and maturation process. Habilitation is especially important for addicts who started drug use young. |
| Habituation | The result of repeated consumption of a drug which produces psychological but no physical dependence. The psychological dependence produces a desire (not a compulsion) to continue taking drugs for the sense of improved well-being. |
| Hallucinations | Perceptions of something (such as a visual image or a sound) that does not really exist. Hallucinations usually arise from a disorder of the nervous system or in response to drugs (such as LSD). |
| Hallucinogens |
A diverse group of drugs that alter
perceptions, thoughts and feelings. Hallucinogens do not always produce
hallucinations. These drugs include LSD, mescaline, MDMA (ecstasy), PCP, and
psilocybin (magic mushrooms). |
| Hashish | The concentrated resin of the marijuana plant. |
| Hepatitis | Inflammation of the liver. |
| Heroin | The potent, widely abused opiate that produces a profound addiction. It consists of two morphine molecules linked together chemically. |
| 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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