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amotivational syndrome

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amotivational syndrome
Substance abuse A condition linked to chronic marijuana abuse, which most commonly affects young, learning disabled, and emotionally immature individuals. See 'Gateway' drugs, Marijuana.


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I would ask about a chronic marijuana smoker who develops amotivational syndrome whether we should look for this extraneous finding as if the information we have were not sufficient to explain the completely screwed-up life of this young person.
Impaired emotional regulation and amotivational syndrome are often the results.
Amotivational Syndrome Even if drugs outperformed both placebos and talk and had no side effects, there would still remain the complaint that these medications kill pain rather than address its cause, in a 2001 letter to the Archives of General Psychiatry, for instance, a psychiatrist described an alcoholic who kept drinking because Prozac made him feel better, leaving him less determined to get sober.
 
 
 
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