Home > Blossary: addiction
Are you an addict? Check it out!

Category: Health

33 Terms

Created by: marija.horvat

Number of Blossarys: 21

My Terms
Collected Terms
English (EN)
Compare Language

Many sports enthusiasts, bodybuilders and athletes take anabolic steroids or steroid supplements to boost their muscles and improve their performance, which can lead to a psychological dependency. ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Anorexia is a severe form of eating disorder which stems from an abnormal obsession with becoming thin. It often begins with normal levels of dieting and exercising but becomes a problem when the ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Behavioral and process addiction, also called non-chemical addiction, process addiction or non-substance-related addition, usually means that the addict has a compulsion to consistently engage in a ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Many benzodiazepines are used in clubs as "downers" to counteract "upper" drugs like cocaine or ecstacy. They are often referred to as candy, downers, benzos, moggies or tranks. ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Bulimia is a severe form of eating disorder which stems from an abnormal obsession with becoming thin without the ability or inclination to diet and exercise normally. It is normally characterised by ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Cocaine is the powdered form of a very powerful stimulant drug. Its freebase version - which is more dangerous as it has not been chemically neutralised with an acid base - is called crack cocaine or ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Codeine is an ingredient found in many common painkillers and cough syrups. Codeine is actually similar to morphine in that both are opiates (i.e. derived from opium). Users become addicted to ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Member comments


( You can type up to 200 characters )

Post  
My other Blossarys

Tvrtka utemeljena 1936. bavi se proizvodnjom ...

Category: Business

By: marija.horvat

It’s hard to imagine — in this day of super ...

Category: Health

By: marija.horvat

Most of us don’t grasp the variety of animals ...

Category: Animals

By: marija.horvat

Superstition is an irrational belief, usually ...

Category: Entertainment

By: marija.horvat