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Addicts
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Habitual drug users who continue to use a drug despite its adverse effects on their health, social life and despite their repeated efforts to stop using it.
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withdrawl syndrome
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After significant amounts of a drug have been in the body for a period of time, its sudden elimination can trigger an adverse physiological reaction.
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Physically dependent
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Individuals who suffer withdrawl reactions are said to be physically dependent on that drug.
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Contingent drug tolerance
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Refers to demonstrations that tolerance develops only to drug effects that are actually experienced.
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Before-and-after design
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Most studies of contingent drug tolerance employ the before-and-after design. In before-and-after experiments, two groups of subjects receive the same series of drug injections and the same series of repeated tests, but the subjects in one group receive the drug before each test and the other group receives it after. At the end of the experiment, all subjects receive the same dose of the drug followed by the test so that the degree to which the drug disrupts test performance in the two groups can be performed.
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Drug tolerance
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state of decreased sensitivity to a drug that develops as a result of exposure to it.
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