Drug naïvety

Drug naïvety is the physiological state of non-habituation or non-tolerance to either a specific drug or broader set of drugs related by pharmacological criteria.

[1] The term applies to the administration of psychotropics in contexts ranging from the professional medical treatment of patients to the non-medical abuse of any drug, as well as the veterinarian.

In addition to not being habituated, a drug-naïve person may have never received a particular drug.

), as the level of habituation affects a patient's baseline resistance to the effects of such medications.

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