Pharmacodynamics refers to the understanding and explanation of what drugs and substances do to the body.
Lear morePharmacotherapy can be defined as the use of medication to treat disease and other illnesses.
Lear moreA placebo effect refers to the positive change in wellbeing of an individual once a drug has been ingested or therapy has been completed, which has no effect to the patient at all. The positive change is then attributed to the patient’s belief in the treatment.
Lear morePost–acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS) is symptoms that persist after the withdrawal from a drug or narcotic substance. Usually PAWS start at around 4 weeks clean and are also referred to as Protracted withdrawals.
Lear morePrecipitated withdrawal can be defined as symptoms which are experienced when an antagonist shifts another drug from the mu receptor in the brain, and has a weaker effect or no effect at all than the drug it substituted.
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