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A major health effect common to all forms of tobacco use is addiction, or, more technically, dependence. Addiction is not lethal in its own right, but it contributes to tobacco-caused death and ...
drug use
The traditional distinction between "addiction" and "habituation" centres on the ability of a drug to produce tolerance and physical dependence. The opiates clearly possess the potential to massively ...
drug use
Certain physiological effects are so closely associated with the heavy use of opium and its derivatives that they have come to be considered characteristic of addictions in general. Some ...
drug use
If opium were the only drug of abuse, and the only kind of abuse were one of habitual, compulsive use, discussion of addiction might be a simple matter. But opium is not the only drug of abuse, and ...
Gelber, Jack
American playwright (b. April 12, 1932, Chicago, Ill.-d. May 9, 2003, New York, N.Y.), broke new theatrical ground in 1959 with his controversially raw and realistic play about drug addiction, The ...
Clarke, Shirley Brimberg
American motion picture director of independent films whose gritty cinema verite works in the 1950s and '60s, including The Connection, The Cool World, and Portrait of Jason, tackled such ...
drug use
The bewilderment that the public manifests whenever a serious attempt is made to differentiate states of addiction or degrees of abuse probably stems from two all-too-common misconceptions concerning ...
drug use
Drug dependence can be viewed as an ethical problem: Is it right and permissible to need a narcotic agent? How one answers this question dictates the position one will take in regard to addiction ...
Dickens, Charles
His health remained precarious after the punishing American tour and was further impaired by his addiction to giving the strenuous "Sikes and Nancy" reading. His farewell reading tour was abandoned ...
World Affairs
A report by the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention revealed that Afghanistan was not only the largest opium producer in the world but was becoming a major heroin manufacturer and was ...
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