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  Pharmacology

  Pharmacology (from Greek φάρμακον, pharmakon, "drug"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and exogenous chemicals that alter normal biochemical function. If substances have medicinal properties,...
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  Alcoholism

  Alcoholism has multiple and conflicting definitions. In common and historic usage, alcoholism is any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, despite health problems and negative social consequences. Modern medical definitions describe alcoholism as a disease and...
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  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel is an American writer and journalist, known for her work in the confessional memoir genre. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. Wurtzel was brought up in New York City in a Jewish family. Her parents divorced when she was young. As described in her memoir...
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  Substance abuse

  Although the term substance can refer to any physical matter, substance abuse has come to refer to the overindulgence in and dependence of a drug or other chemical leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's physical and mental health, or the welfare of others. The disorder is...
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  Cancer

  Cancer /ˈkænsə(r)/  ( listen) (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the...
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  Social sciences

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  Vampire

  Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person. In folkloric tales, vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the...
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  Breast cancer

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• Depression

  Depression, in kinesiology, is the anatomical term of motion for movement in an inferior direction. It is the opposite of elevation. This term is often applied to the shoulders (e.g. dropping them to a normal condition after shrugging them would be depression).