drug-naive

alternative drug naive · alternative drug-naïve · alternative drug naïve

1. not comparablemedicineLacking tolerance to or dependence on the pharmacological effect of a drug.

   D-Amphetamine improved information processing but had no effect on inhibitory control in drug-naive controls.

   2008, Richard J. Abbott, Michael G. Ritchie, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Speciation in Plants and Animals: Pattern and Process : Papers of a Theme Issue

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   To address these issues, they recorded electroencephalographic sleep in 20 drug-naive schizophrenic patients, 20 drug-free but previously medicated schizophrenic patients, and 15 normal controls.

   1992, Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry