# Narcology > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Narcology > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Narcology.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcology > Source revision: 1303140925 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Branch of medicine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} __NOTOC__ {{Infobox Occupation | name= Narcologist | image= | caption= | official_names=Addictionist/addictionologist,{{cite book|author1=Robert Jean Campbell|author2=Director Gracie Square Hospital and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Robert Jean Campbell, M.D.|title=Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vrlsos_O13UC&pg=PA11|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-515221-0|pages=11}}{{cite book|author=Slee|title=Slee's Health Care Terms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Hf4xWVXwxoC&pg=PA8|date=7 October 2009|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-0-7637-8903-9|pages=8}} * Physician | type= [Specialty](/source/Specialty_(medicine)) | activity_sector= [Medicine](/source/Medicine) | competencies= | formation= * [Doctor of Medicine](/source/Doctor_of_Medicine) (M.D.) * [Doctor of Osteopathic medicine](/source/Doctor_of_Osteopathic_medicine) (D.O.) * [Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery](/source/Bachelor_of_Medicine%2C_Bachelor_of_Surgery) (M.B.B.S.) * [Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery](/source/Bachelor_of_Medicine%2C_Bachelor_of_Surgery) (MBChB) | employment_field= [Hospital](/source/Hospital)s, [clinic](/source/clinic)s | related_occupation= }} '''Narcology''' ({{langx|ru|наркология}}: {{Transliteration|ru|ISO|narkológija}}), from Russian {{lang|ru|нарко-|italic=no}} ([narco-](/source/%3Awikt%3Anarco-), ''pertaining to [narcotic](/source/narcotic)s, illicit [drugs](/source/drugs)'') + {{lang|ru|-логия|italic=no}} ([-logy](/source/%3Aen%3A-logy), "branch of study") is a [subspecialty](/source/subspecialty) of [psychiatry](/source/psychiatry) dealing with the prevention, treatment, diagnosis, social care and recovery of [drug-dependent persons](/source/Substance_dependence).{{cite web |url=https://bigenc.ru/medicine/text/2249238 |title=Большая российская энциклопедия: Наркология |trans-title=Great Russian Encyclopedia: Narcology |author=Гофман А. Г. |access-date=31 March 2019 |website=BIGENC |language=ru |archive-date=1 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042756/https://bigenc.ru/medicine/text/2249238 |url-status=dead }} The study and science of phenomena of "narcomania",'"Narcomania"' (наркомания: {{Transliteration|ru|ISO|narkománija}}: from "narcotic" + "μανία" [madness]) is a Russian narcological term for "drug addiction" or "drug abuse" (the term usually refers to illicit, forbidden by law drugs). "toxicomania",'"Toxicomania'" (токсикомания: {{Transliteration|ru|ISO|toksikománija}}: from "toxic" + "μανία" [madness]) is narcological term for "inhalant abuser", "volatile substances", "benzine", "glue", etc. (related to only non-forbidden drugs) [chronic alcoholism](/source/chronic_alcoholism), and its [ætiology](/source/Cause_(medicine)), [pathogenesis](/source/pathogenesis), and clinical aspects.{{Cite web |author-link=World Health Organization |date=2020 |title=Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms |url=https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9241544686 |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=www.who.int |language=en}} The term for a practitioner of narcology is '''narcologist'''. In the United States, the comparable terms are "[addiction medicine](/source/addiction_medicine)" and "addictionist". Narcology was introduced as a separated medical specialty in the Soviet Union during the early 1960s through the 1970s.{{cite book |author=Шабанов П. Д. |title=Наркология: Практическое руководство для врачей |trans-title=Narcology: Clinical Practice Guidelines |location=Moscow |publisher=ГЭОТАР-МЕД |date=2003 |page=5 |isbn=5-9231-0183-1 |language=ru}} The term "narcology" is used especially in the countries of the [former Soviet Union](/source/former_Soviet_Union), including Russia. == Human right violations in Russia == [United Nations](/source/United_Nations) bodies and human rights organizations have documented [human rights](/source/human_rights) violations against ''people who use drugs'' in Russia, including the absolute prohibition on opioid substitution therapy and [methadone maintenance treatment](/source/Methadone_maintenance), the use of unscientific methods in the treatment of [addictive disorder](/source/addictive_disorder)s, the absence of drug dependence treatment for people with serious medical conditions.{{cite journal |last1=Golichenko |first1=Mikhail |last2=Chu |first2=Sandra Ka Hon |title=Human rights in patient care: drug treatment and punishment in Russia |journal=Public Health Reviews |volume=39 |issue=1 |year=2018 |page=12 |issn=2107-6952 |doi=10.1186/s40985-018-0088-5 |pmid=29881644 |language=en|pmc=5984458 |doi-access=free }} ==See also== * [Addiction psychiatry](/source/Addiction_psychiatry) * [Addiction medicine](/source/Addiction_medicine) == Further literature == * {{cite book |last1=Stoimenov |first1=Y. A. |first2=M. Y. |last2=Stoimenova |first3=P. Y. |last3=Koeva |date=2003 |title=Психиатрический энциклопедический словарь |trans-title=Psychiatric Encyclopaedic Dictionary |language=ru |location=[Киев](/source/Kyiv) |publisher=МАУП |page=565 |isbn=966-608-306-X}} * {{cite journal|last1=Elovich|first1=Richard|last2=Drucker|first2=Ernest|title=On drug treatment and social control: Russian narcology's great leap backwards|journal=Harm Reduction Journal|volume=5|issue=1|year=2008|pages=23|issn=1477-7517|doi=10.1186/1477-7517-5-23|pmid=18577225 |pmc=2474597 |doi-access=free }} ==References== {{Reflist|group="note"}} ;Sources {{Reflist}} {{medicine}} {{Psychiatry}} Category:Addiction medicine Category:Addiction psychiatry {{Psychiatry-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Narcology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcology) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcology?action=history)). 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