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There is an additional connotation to the term habituation which applies to psychological dependency on drugs, and is included in several online dictionaries. [6] A team of specialists from the World Health Organization assembled in 1957 to address the problem of drug addiction and adopted the term "drug habituation" to distinguish some drug-use behaviors from drug addiction.
Current work on the biology of moral decisions, neuro-economics, social communication, and drug-addiction, has been strongly influenced by Damasio's hypothesis. [citation needed] An article published in the Archives of Scientific Psychology in 2014 named Damasio one of the 100 most eminent psychologist of the modern era.
Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption ...
A person claiming to Prince’s former drug dealer said the superstar was hooked on painkillers for more than 25 years. Prince's former drug dealer reveals star's decades-long addiction to pain ...
New reports show that at the time of his death, Prince had painkillers in his system and a low red blood cell count. Pop singer Prince had painkiller Percocet in his system - reports Skip to main ...
Evolutionary models of drug use seek to explain human drug usage from the perspective of evolutionary fitness. Plants for instance, may provide fitness benefits by relieving pain. Proponents of this model of drug use suggest that the consumption of pharmacological substances for medicinal purposes evolved in the backdrop of human-plant ...
History of entheogenic drugs. Entheogenic drugs have been used by various groups for thousands of years. There are numerous historical reports as well as modern, contemporary reports of indigenous groups using entheogens, chemical substances used in a religious, shamanic, or spiritual context. [ 1][ 2]
Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours. A mosquito drinking blood ( hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste) A rosy boa eating a mouse whole. A red kangaroo eating grass. The robberfly is an insectivore, shown here having grabbed a leaf beetle. An American robin eating a worm.