Assertion: amobarbital sodium's characteristic | /r/HasProperty | psychic dependence
Facets:
value: on the effects of the drug
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The characteristics of drug dependence to barbiturates include: (a) a strong desire or need to continue taking the drug, (b) a tendency to increase the dose, (c) a psychic dependence on the effects of the drug related to subjective and individual appreciation of those effects and (d) a physical dependence on the effects of the drug requiring its presence for maintenance of homeostasis and resulting in a definite, characteristic and self-limited abstinence syndrome when the drug is withdrawn.