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Subliminal messages

Subliminal messages refer to words or pictures that are not consciously perceived but that supposedly influence people's judgments, attitudes, and behaviors

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Subliminal perception

Subliminal perception is a perception of a stimulus below the threshold for conscious recognition or of conscious awareness.

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Suborner

Suborner refers to one who suborns, that is induces another to perform an unlawful act secretly or give false testimony.

Substance

Substance refers to a chemical that alters a person's mood or behavior when it is smoked, injected, drunk, inhaled, or swallowed in pill form.

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Substance abuse

Substance abuse refers to the use of a mood -altering substance in such a way that it is either socially unacceptable or impairs social, medical and/or occupational functioning.

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Substance dependence

substance dependence refers to a diagnosis of an adolescent (or adult) who must show a maladaptive pattern of substance use for at least 12 months, accompanied by three (3) or more significant clinical signs of distress tolerance (the need for increased amounts to achieve intoxication), withdrawal (cognitive and physiological changes upon discontinuation of the drug), and other indices of compulsive use. Substance dependence is also characterized as with or without physiological dependence (i.e., with or without evidence of tolerance or withdrawal).

Substance intoxication

Substance intoxication refers to the temporary maladaptive experience of behavioral or psychological changes that are due to the accumulation of a substance in the body. It is physiological reaction, such as impaired judgment and motor ability, as well as mood change, resulting from the ingestion of a psychoactive substance.

Substance misuse

Substance misuse refers to the use of substances in a manner for which they were not intended.

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