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| Substance-related disorder |
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| One of a range of problems associated with the use and abuse of drugs such as alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and other substances people use to alter the way they think, feel, and behave. These are extremely costly in human and financial terms. |
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| Disorder in which a person acts on an irresistible, but potentially harmful, impulse. |
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| Use of multiple mind- and behavior-altering substances, such as drugs. |
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| Substance, such as a drug, that alters mood or behavior. |
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| Physiological reaction, such as impaired judgment and motor ability, as well as mood change, resulting from the ingestion of a psychoactive substance. |
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| Pattern of psychoactive substance use leading to significant distress or impairment in social and occupational roles and in hazardous situations. |
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| Maladaptive pattern of substance use characterized by the need for increased amounts to achieve the desired effect, negative physical effects when the substance is withdrawn, unsuccessful efforts to control its use, and substantial effort expended to seek it or recover from its effects. Also known as addiction. |
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| Need for increased amounts of a substance to achieve the desired effect, and a diminished effect with continued use of the same amount. |
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| Severely negative physiological reaction to removal of a psychoactive substance, which can be alleviated by the same or a similar substance. |
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| Frightening hallucinations and body tremors that result when a heavy drinker withdraws from alcohol. |
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| Psychoactive substance that results in behavioral sedation; such substances include alcohol and the sedative, hypnotic and anxiolytic drugs. |
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| Psychoactive substance that elevates mood, activity, and altertness; such substances include amphetamines, caffeine, cocaine, and nicotine. |
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| Addictive psychoactive substance such as heroin, opium, or morphine that causes temporary euphoria and analgesia (pain reduction.) |
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| Any7 psychoactive substance, such as LSD or marijuana, that can produce delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and altered sensory perception. |
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| fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) |
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| Pattern of problems, including learning difficulties, behavior deficits, and characteristic physical flaws, resulting from heavy drinking by the victim's mother when she was pregnant with the victim. |
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| Cognitive, biological, behavioral, and social problem associated with alcohol use and abuse. |
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| Sedative (and addictive) drug such as Amytal, Seconal or Nembutal that is used as a sleep aid. |
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| Antianxiety drug such as Valium, Xanax, Dalman, or Halcion also used to treat insomnia. Effective against anxiety (and, at high potency, panic disorder), benzodiazepines show some side effects, such as some cognitive and motor impairment and may result in substance dependence. Relapse rates are extremely high when such a drug is discontinued. |
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| amphetamine/cocaine/nicotine use disorder |
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| Psychological, biological, behavioral, and social problems associated with the use and abuse of said substance. |
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| Dried part of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa); a hallucinogen that is the most widely used illegal substance. |
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| LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide) |
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| Most common hallucinogenic drug; a synthetic version of the grain fungus ergot. |
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| Replacement of a drug on which a person is dependent with one that has a similar chemical makeup, an agonist. Used as a treatment for substance dependence. |
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| Medication that blocks or counteracts the effects of a psychoactive drug. |
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| An extremely controversial treatment approach to alcohol dependence, in which sever abusers are taught to drink in moderation. |
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| Extending therapeutic progress by teaching the client how to cope with future troubling situations. |
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| Intermittent explosive disorder |
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| Episodes during which a person acts on aggressive impulses that result in serious assaults or destruction of property. |
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| Recurrent failure to resist urges to steal things not needed for personal use or their monetary value. |
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| An impulse-control disorder that involves having an irresistible urge to set fires. |
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| Persisten and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior. |
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| People's urge to pull out their own hair from anywhere on the body, including the scalp, eyebrows and arm. |
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