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• Aversion therapy — is a form of psychiatric, mental health or psychological treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being subjected to some form of discomfort. This conditioning is intended to cause the patient to associate the… …   Wikipedia

• aversion therapy — n. therapy designed to suppress undesirable behavior, as a compulsion or addiction, by conditioning a person to associate the behavior with an unpleasant or painful stimulus * * * ▪ psychology       psychotherapy designed to cause a patient to… …   Universalium

• aversion therapy — n therapy intended to suppress an undesirable habit or behavior (as smoking or overeating) by associating the habit or behavior with a noxious or punishing stimulus (as an electric shock) * * * a form of behaviour therapy that is used to reduce… …   Medical dictionary

• Drug test — For other uses, see Drug testing (disambiguation). Drug test Diagnostics To minimize opportunities for tampering, a direct line of sight between the observer and the specimen bottle must be maintained during collection of a urine sample …   Wikipedia

• Drug discovery — In the fields of medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which drugs are discovered and/or designed. In the past most drugs have been discovered either by identifying the active ingredient from traditional… …   Wikipedia

• aversion therapy — a form of behaviour therapy that is used to reduce the occurrence of undesirable behaviour, such as sexual deviations or drug addiction. Conditioning is used, with repeated pairing of some unpleasant stimulus with a stimulus related to the… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• aversion therapy — noun any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success) • Hypernyms: ↑behavior therapy,… …   Useful english dictionary

• aversion — aver·sion ə vər zhən, shən n 1) a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it 2) a tendency to extinguish a behavior or to avoid a thing or situation and esp. a usu. pleasurable one because it is or has been… …   Medical dictionary

• Taste aversion — Conditioned taste aversion[1], also known as Garcia effect (after Dr. John Garcia), and as Sauce Bearnaise Syndrome , a term coined by Seligman and Hager,[2] is an example of classical conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning. Conditioned taste… …   Wikipedia

• Intravenous drug use (recreational) — Shoot up redirects here. For the shooting video game genre see Shoot em up. Intravenous drug use refers to intravenous injection of recreational drugs (e.g., heroin, cocaine, amphetamines). History IV drug use is a relatively recent phenomenon… …   Wikipedia

• Operation Jackpot (drug investigation) — Operation Jackpot was a federal drug task force based in South Carolina that captured and convicted more than 100 marijuana smugglers from 1983 to 1986 during President Ronald Reagan s War on Drugs. Among the chief targets of Operation Jackpot… …   Wikipedia