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cold turkey [1 record]

Record 1 2007-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
DEF

Abruptly stopping heroin and undergoing withdrawal symptoms without medication.

OBS

a la canona: Puerto Rican addicts' slang.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
DEF

Sevrage brutal aux opiacés de type morphinique (héroïne, morphine, opium); cette expression trouve son origine dans le fait que l'arrêt dans la consommation [...] provoque, entre autres symptômes, la «chair de poule».

PHR

sevrage brutal d'une toxicomanie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Drogas y toxicomanía
DEF

Que abandona el uso de sustancias adictivas de repente.

CONT

A este médico se debe el cambio de la mentalidad pública asistencial en el tema de las drogas, desde las posturas integristas, que exigían al drogadicto que abandonara su adicción a pelo, hasta la actual política de reducción de daños.

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