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This glossary comes from False Messengers: How Addictive Drugs Change the Brain, by David Friedman, PhD, and Sue Rusche, Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1999.

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F

Fight-or-flight response An automatic response of our body that prepares us to act to save ourselves when we become excited or scared.

 

Free will Our ability to make choices and decisions that are not under the control of outside forces or prior causes.



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