Drug tolerance and Psychoactive drug

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Difference between Drug tolerance and Psychoactive drug

Drug tolerance vs. Psychoactive drug

Drug tolerance is a pharmacological concept describing subjects' reduced reaction to a drug following its repeated use. A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior.

Similarities between Drug tolerance and Psychoactive drug

Drug tolerance and Psychoactive drug have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Addiction, Desensitization (medicine), Ethanol, Receptor antagonist, Sensitization, Substance dependence.

Addiction

Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences.

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Desensitization (medicine)

In medicine, desensitization is a method to reduce or eliminate an organism's negative reaction to a substance or stimulus.

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Ethanol

Ethanol, also called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is a chemical compound, a simple alcohol with the chemical formula.

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Receptor antagonist

A receptor antagonist is a type of receptor ligand or drug that blocks or dampens a biological response by binding to and blocking a receptor rather than activating it like an agonist.

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Sensitization

Sensitization is a non-associative learning process in which repeated administration of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response.

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Substance dependence

Substance dependence also known as drug dependence is an adaptive state that develops from repeated drug administration, and which results in withdrawal upon cessation of drug use.

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Drug tolerance and Psychoactive drug Comparison

Drug tolerance has 24 relations, while Psychoactive drug has 354. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 1.59% = 6 / (24 + 354).

References

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