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Habituation:
Habituation:
A condition characterized by a psychological craving for the effects produced by the administration of a drug.
The Expert Committee on Addiction-Producing Drugs of the World Health Organization defines habituation (1957) as: "...a condition resulting from the repeated consumption of a drug. Its characteristics include: (1) a desire (but not compulsion) to continue taking the drug for the sense of improved well-being which it engenders; (2) little or no tendency to increase the dose; (3) some degree of psychic dependence on the effect of drug; but absence of physical dependence and hence of the abstinency syndrome; (4) detrimental effects, if any, primarily on the individual." (See Seevers, M.H., J.A.M.A. 181 :92, 1962.)
Cf. Addiction, Narcotic, Dependence, Tolerance, Drug Dependence
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