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File:Drug_danger_and_dependence.png licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0, GFDL 2010-04-02T14:29:42Z Thundermaker 722x420 (32424 Bytes) Color-code based on drug category from the reference data. 2010-04-02T13:39:45Z Thundermaker 751x420 (28557 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=English: Active/Lethal Dose Ratio and Dependence Potential of ...
English: A rational scale to assess the harm of drugs. Data source is the March 24, 2007 article: Nutt, David, Leslie A King, William Saulsbury, Colin Blakemore. "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" The Lancet 2007; 369:1047-1053.
"Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" The Lancet 2007; 369:1047-1053. PMID:17382831. For more information, see image. It contains not only the physical harm and dependence data like the aforementioned image, but also the mean social harm of each drug.
A scale was developed to compare the harm and dependence liability of 20 drugs. [81] The scale uses a rating of zero to three to rate physical dependence, psychological dependence, and pleasure to create a mean score for dependence. [81] Selected results can be seen in the chart below. Heroin and morphine both scored highest, at 3.0. [81]
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 ...
In the case of benzodiazepine dependence, the continued use seems to be typically associated with the avoidance of unpleasant withdrawal reaction rather than with the pleasurable effects of the drug. [1] Benzodiazepine dependence develops with long-term use, even at low therapeutic doses, [2] often without the described drug seeking behavior ...
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The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is used to assess the severity of patient's addiction and analyse the need of treatment which has been in use for more than 2 decades since its publication in 1992. It is used in a variety of settings such as clinics, mental health services in the US, the Indian Health Service and several European countries ...