Talk:Detoxication

Detoxication vs detoxification
When I was undergoing treatment, I was present at a lecture which informed us that the difference between these two terms consists in "detoxication" meaning a treatment without the use of pharmacology. On this page I'm reading something totally different. Can anyone make this clear? --Duncan MacCall (talk) 21:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Something you heard at a lecture is not reliable. From what I can tell here is that detoxication is a term for a metabolic process, detoxification refers to the results from a treatment. Either way the terms are distinct, and should not be merged.--ZayZayEM (talk) 23:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This article is incorrect. There is no difference what so ever between the two words. They are alternative spellings of the same thing. Up until the late 1960's, both spellings were used interchangeably. After that, detoxification became the preferred spelling and detoxication fell from use and isn't even recognised by my spellchecker. Just look in any dictionary. While some people may use the two words to mean different things, there is no standard for differentiating them and these modern uses are neologisms not real meanings. This can be exemplified by that fact that there are zero sources in this article and zero links form other pages even after ten years, making this an unsourced orphan. Then content here should be merged with detoxification and this page changed to redirect. Before someone asks me for source, I'll point out that I don't have to, and could never give a negative source. The burden of sourcing is on those who wish to keep this article as it is, to provided sources showing that it is true. Rincewind42 (talk) 15:33, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Agree with Rincewind42; I'll start a merge with Drug metabolism discussion.Klbrain (talk) 22:54, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose merging Detoxication into Drug metabolism. As defined here, the terms are synonyms, that the Drug metabolism page is much more developed.Klbrain (talk) 22:57, 27 August 2015 (UTC)