The condition or practice of using barbiturate drugs, or a state of being under the influence of barbiturates.
From 'barbituric' (relating to barbiturates) plus '-ism,' creating a noun for the practice or condition.
Barbituism highlights how '-ism' can describe not just belief systems but drug conditions—this linguistic pattern shows how medicine borrowed philosophical language to describe addiction states.
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