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psychopharmacology

n. the study of the influence of drugs on mental, emotional, and behavioral processes. Psychopharmacology is concerned primarily with the mode of action of various substances that affect different areas of the brain and nervous system, including drugs of abuse. See also clinical psychopharmacology; geriatric psychopharmacology; pediatric psychopharmacology; preclinical psychopharmacology. —psychopharmacological adj. —psychopharmacologist n.

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drug culture

drug culture

the activities and way of life of people who habitually use one or more kinds of drugs of abuse, usually illicit drugs such as hashish, cocaine, heroin, LSD, or other substances that produce altered states of consciousness. Also called drug subculture.