psychopharmacological

English

Etymology

From psychopharmacology +‎ -ical.

Adjective

psychopharmacological (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to psychopharmacology, the interactions between pharmaceuticals and the brain
    • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order:
      Three of the crack-related homicides were attributed to the psychopharmacological consequences of ingesting crack (increased violence, excitability, and irrationality), and eight homicides were attributed to the economic compulsion to engage in crime in order to subsidize drug use.
    • 2009 January 25, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Checking In”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      As a compromise in an age of psychopharmacological doubt, this seems about right.

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