substitution therapy

substitution therapy
treatment by providing a less harmful alternative to a drug or remedy that a patient has been receiving. It is used when the patient has become addicted to a drug or is placing too much reliance upon a particular remedy. The patient is weaned off the 'hard' drug to which he has become addicted by the gradual substitution of a nonaddictive drug with a similar or a sedative effect.

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replacement t. (def. 1).

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