Narcology

{{Short description|Branch of medicine}}

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{{Infobox Occupation

| name= Narcologist

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| 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

| activity_sector= Medicine

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• 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)

| employment_field= Hospitals, clinics

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Narcology ({{langx|ru|наркология}}: {{Transliteration|ru|ISO|narkológija}}), from Russian {{lang|ru|нарко-|italic=no}} (narco-, pertaining to narcotics, illicit drugs) + {{lang|ru|-логия|italic=no}} (-logy, "branch of study") is a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the prevention, treatment, diagnosis, social care and recovery of drug-dependent persons.{{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}} 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, and its ætiology, 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" 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, including Russia.