narcomania


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narcomania

an abnormal desire for drugs.
See also: Drugs
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However, the group of drug addicts included all those who received medical care regardless of their racial and ethnic affiliation, since narcomania appeared in our country as a medico social phenomenon just recently.
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(20) Marek Kohn, Narcomania: On Heroin (London: Faber and Faber, 1987), p.
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Narcomania. Medical and Social consequences, Treatment, Moscow.
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* Drug abusers were described as "narcomaniacs" and their action or condition as "narcomania" (SOU, 1939:25, App.
Swedish drug treatment and the political use of conceptual innovation 1882-1982
In 1962, Kettil Bruun, then head of the Social Research Institute of Alcohol Studies in Finland, wrote an essay (in Swedish) on "Alcoholism and Narcomania" (Bruun, 1962).
"Problematic intoxications": conceptualizing "abuse" of illicit drugs in postwar social treatment legislation in Finland

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