drug

(mind altering drug, mind-altering drug, mind altering substance, mind-altering substance, molecular entity, psychoactive drug, psychotropic)

• Noun: The term drug may refer to any non-food chemical substance or preparation administered for the purpose of correcting or attenuating a disease process (therapeutic drug) or for pleasure (recreational drug). Almost all drugs of interest in the realm of behavioral health care (psychiatry and addiction medicine) achieve their primary effects in the brain (central nervous system) and may also be referred to as psychoactive or psychotropic. Many such drugs (e.g., morphine, diazepam, amphetamine, nitrous oxide) may be used for either of these two purposes. Some Drugs judged to have abuse potential are classified according to schedules of controlled substances by the DEA. (The list below also includes some substances which are classified as foods or dietary supplements.)
• Verb: To administer a drug to another person, perhaps without their knowledge or consent.

This term appears in...

• addiction
• pharmacology
• psychopharmacology

includes:

- Choose - bath salts date rape drug designer drug drug of abuse drug of choice effect class gateway drug generic hard drug highless long-acting injectable long-acting injectable antipsychotic magical half dozen mood altering mood altering drug orphan drug pharmaceutical plant food poppers recreational drug sleeping pill spice street drug truth serum

See also:

- Choose - addiction Cognitive Drug Research Assessment System combination compound container for drug drug package head shop medical food narcotic pharmacology preparation of drug Preparations psychopharmacology psychopharmacotherapy source

Movies

- Choose - 28 Days A Better Life A Cry for Love A Million Little Pieces A Scanner Darkly ADDicted (2017) Altered States American Violet Arkansas Asylum (2005) Babylon Bad Lieutenant Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Basquiat Better Living Through Chemistry Boarding Gate Boys on the Side Bubble Cake (2014) Charlie Bartlett Ciao! Manhattan Country Strong Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus Drugstore Cowboy Factory Girl Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fear Me Not Footloose (1984) Hamlet 2 Hard Times (2009) Harsh Times Her Smell High: The True Tale of American Marijuana Hook I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can Identity Thief King of New York Kings and Queen Layer Cake Less Than Zero Light Sleeper Lord of War Maria Full of Grace Maryjane Mercury Rising Mixed Blood Mondo Mod Moonlight (2016) Most High Numb OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie Off the Map One False Move One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Orange County Party Monster Peace, Love & Misunderstanding Postcards from the Edge Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical Reindeerspotting Requiem for a Dream Revenge of the Nerds Revolution (1968) Rolling Rush (1991) Rust and Bone Scarface (1983) Self-Medicated Shrink Sid & Nancy Side Effects (2013) Silver Linings Playbook Standing Tall Straight A's Take Shelter Ted The Basketball Diaries The Blind Side The Bridge The Double (2013) The Fairy The Game (1997) The Hedgehog The Hippie Revolt (Something's Happening) The Lady (2011) The Professional The Runaways (2010) The Shrink Is In The Sicilian Girl The Union: The Business Behind Getting High The United States vs. Billie Holiday The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) The Wrestler Thirteen Traffic (2000) Trainspotting Up in Smoke Valley of the Dolls Venetian Bird Veronica Guerin Virgil Bliss What the Bleep Do We Know!? Whirlpool White Rush Wild in the Streets William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Winter's Bone You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Resources

- Choose - AACAP: Practice Parameter on the Use of Psychotropic Medication in Children and Adolescents Drug Enforcement Administration Drugs@FDA Food and Drug Administration Institute for Safe Medication Practices Medline Plus Drug Information NeedyMeds Physician's Desk Reference U.S. Pharmacopeia

Books, etc.

- Choose - Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs Concise Guide to Psychopharmacology and Electroconvulsive Therapy, Revised Edition Condensed Psychopharmacology 2013: A Pocket Reference for Psychiatry and Psychotropic Medications Counselor's Resource on Psychiatric Medications - Issues of Treatment and Referral Current Psychotherapeutic Drugs, Second Edition Drug Action in the Central Nervous System Drug Dealer, MD Drug Identification Bible Drug Interactions in Psychiatry Drug-drug Interaction Primer: A Compendium of Case Vignettes for the Practicing Clinician Educating Yourself About Alcohol and Drugs - A People's Primer Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology Handbook of Drug Therapy in Psychiatry Handbook of Psychiatric Drug Therapy Helping Parents and Teachers Understand Medications for Behavioral and Emotional Problems Managing the Side Effects of Psychotropic Medications Manual of Drug Interaction Principles for Medical Practice: The P450 System Matters of Substance: Drugs--and Why Everyone's a User Pills, Potions, and Poisons: How Medicines and Other Drugs Work Practical Management of the Side Effects of Psychotropic Drugs Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-The-Counter Medications - Recognition and Management Psychopharmacology Across the Life Cycle- An Update- Section IV of American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry, Volume 16 Psychotropic Drug Handbook Ten Years That Changed the Face of Mental Illness The Billion-Dollar Molecule The Drug Experience. First-person Accounts Of Addicts, Writers, Scientists And Others. The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs The Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs - A Consumer's Guide to Safe and Effective Use The Truth About the Drug Companies What You Need to Know About Psychiatric Drugs What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications

People

- Choose - Frank Lucas Nicky Barnes