Key facts
- Occupation.name
- Narcologist
- Occupation.official_names
- Addictionist/addictionologist, Physician
- Occupation.type
- Specialty
- Occupation.activity_sector
- Medicine
- Occupation.formation
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Doctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)
- Occupation.employment_field
- Hospitals, clinics
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- addiction medicine
- Part of
- psychiatry
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- topic's main category
- Category:Narcology
- interested in
- alcoholism
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Narcology (: ), from Russian (narco-, pertaining to narcotics, illicit drugs) + (-logy, "branch of study") is a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the prevention, treatment, diagnosis, social care and recovery of drug-dependent persons. The study and science of phenomena of "narcomania", "toxicomania", chronic alcoholism, and its ætiology, pathogenesis, and clinical aspects. The term for a practitioner of narcology is narcologist. In the United States, the comparable terms are "addiction medicine" and "addictionist".
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