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insect repellant

Street, slang, or code word for synthetic cathinones... Read More

inspection

Observing anything of a visible nature relating to the human body for the purposes of a medical and/or forensic examination or assessment... Read More

institutional corrections

Persons housed in secure correctional facilities... Read More

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

A federally mandated review body established or designated by an entity specifically for protecting the welfare of human subjects recruited to participate in biomedical or biobehavioral research... Read More

institutionalization

Placing a person in a hospital, residential treatment, or institution (e... Read More

intake

A respectful, systematic process of gathering personal information of either clients or clients’ caregivers in order to facilitate service providers as well as clients to make informed decisions about the needed programs and/ or services... Read More

integral component 

Portion of an academic course that is so significant and necessary to the understanding of the subject matter as a whole that the course would be considered incomplete without it... Read More

Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)

A national fingerprint and criminal history system that responds to requests 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to help law enforcement agencies solve and prevent crime and catch criminals/terrorists... Read More

integrated care

The methods and strategies for linking and coordinating the various aspects of care delivered by different care systems, such as the work of general practitioners, primary and specialty care, preventive and curative services, and acute and long-term care, as well as physical and mental health services and social care, to meet the multiple needs/problems of an individual client or category of persons with similar needs/problems... Read More

integrated software systems

A collection of computer programs designed to work together to handle an application, either by passing data from one to another or as components of a single system... Read More

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