Hypermnesia of Euphoria or Any Other Desired, from the Point of View of the Consumer, Psychotropic Effect as the Initial and leading link in the Occurrence and Maintaining the Body’s Dependence on Psychoactive Factors

The work shows the role of the autonomic nervous system in functioning of long-term memory, the identity offunctioning of the mechanisms of long-term memory in the evolutionary adaptation of a man and dependence onpsychoactive substances. It is shown that the dependences of the body on psychoactive substances are the states ofprogredient adaptation, that the states of dependence of the organism on psychoactive substances and on psychogenicpsychoactive factors are the states of the same type. Classification of psychoactive factors is given. It is proposedto create a new branch of medicine combining study of the body’s dependence both on chemical and psychogenicpsychoactive factors. Onomastic definitions to be used in this new branch of medicine are presented.