Narcology

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Narcologist
Occupation
NamesAddictionist/Addictionologist,[1][2]
  • Physician
Occupation type
Specialty
Activity sectors
Medicine
Description
Education required
Fields of
employment
Hospitals, Clinics

Narcology (

chronic alcoholism, and its ætiology, pathogenesis, and clinical aspects.[3][4] The term for a practitioner of narcology is narcologist. In the United States, the comparable terms are "addiction medicine
" and "addictionist".

Narcology was introduced as a separated medical specialty in the Soviet Union during the early 1960s through the 1970s.

former Soviet Union, including Russia.[4]

Human right violations in Russia

addictive disorders, the absence of drug dependence treatment for people with serious medical conditions.[6]

See also

Further literature

  • Stoimenov, Y. A.; Stoimenova, M. Y.; Koeva, P. Y. (2003). Психиатрический энциклопедический словарь [Psychiatric Encyclopaedic Dictionary] (in Russian).
    ISBN 966-608-306-X
    .
  • Elovich, Richard; Drucker, Ernest (2008). "On drug treatment and social control: Russian narcology's great leap backwards". Harm Reduction Journal. 5 (1): 23.
    PMID 18577225
    .

References

  1. ^ '"Narcomania"' (наркомания: narkománija: from "narcotic" + "μανία" [madness]) is a Russian narcological term for "drug addiction" or "drug abuse" (the term usually refers to illicit, forbidden by law drugs).
  2. ^ '"Toxicomania'" (токсикомания: toksikománija: from "toxic" + "μανία" [madness]) is narcological term for "inhalant abuser", "volatile substances", "benzine", "glue", etc. (related to only non-forbidden drugs)
Sources
  1. ISBN 978-0-19-515221-0
    .
  2. ISBN 978-0-7637-8903-9
    .
  3. ^ a b Гофман А. Г. "Большая российская энциклопедия: Наркология" [Great Russian Encyclopedia: Narcology]. BIGENC (in Russian). Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms". www.who.int. 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  5. ISBN 5-9231-0183-1
    .
  6. PMID 29881644
    .
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