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  2. Opioid use disorder - Wikipedia

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    Opioid dependence can occur as physical dependence, psychological dependence, or both. [76] Drug dependence is an adaptive state associated with a withdrawal syndrome upon cessation of repeated exposure to a stimulus (e.g., drug intake). [56] [57] [58] Dependence is a component of a substance use disorder.

  3. Substance-induced psychosis - Wikipedia

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    Substance-induced psychosis (commonly known as toxic psychosis or drug-induced psychosis) is a form of psychosis that is attributed to substance intoxication, withdrawal or recent consumption of psychoactive drugs. It is a psychosis that results from the effects of various substances, such as medicinal and nonmedicinal substances, legal and ...

  4. Substance dependence - Wikipedia

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    Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption ...

  5. Substance use disorder - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 3% of people aged 12 or older had an illicit drug use disorder. [73] The highest rates of illicit drug use disorder were among those aged 18 to 25 years old, at roughly 7%. [73] [72] There were over 72,000 deaths from drug overdose in the United States in 2017, [74] which is a threefold increase from 2002. [74]

  6. Benzodiazepine use disorder - Wikipedia

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    Benzodiazepines can induce a severe benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome as well as drug seeking behavior.. Sedative-hypnotics such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, and the barbiturates are known for the severe physical dependence that they are capable of inducing which can result in severe withdrawal effects. [13]

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    In 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved both buprenorphine (Subutex) and buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone) for the treatment of opiate dependence. Suboxone combines bupe with naloxone, the drug that paramedics use to revive overdose victims.

  8. Substance-related disorder - Wikipedia

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    Substance use, also known as drug use, is a patterned use of a substance (drug) in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others. The drugs used are often associated with levels of substance intoxication that alter judgment, perception, attention and physical control, not related with ...

  9. Benzodiazepine dependence - Wikipedia

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    For a diagnosis of benzodiazepine dependence to be made, the ICD-10 requires that at least 3 of the below criteria are met and that they have been present for at least a month, or, if less than a month, that they appeared repeatedly during a 12-month period. [45] [46]