addiction is not defined merely by physical dependence; rather, it is defined by the compulsive drive to use despite negative consequences. As such, alcohol abuse can be dangerous, regardless of whether or not alcohol dependency
Ironically, in a way it does. However, that isn’t the case in terms of the definitions in the addiction world. Neither abuse nor dependence have a positive connotation, but far more people abuse alcohol than have alcohol dependence. For many people, partaking in alcohol abuse is revocable w...
The article reports on the findings of a study on the psychological effect of alcohol abuse or dependence (ADD), conducted by David M. Fergusson and his colleagues in New Zealand. The study, which was published in the March 2009 issue of the journal "Archives of General Psychiatry," found ...
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The aim of this study is to deliver representative epidemiological data about the prevalence of alcohol abuse and dependence in general practices in an urban area. In 12 general practices at Luebeck, a Northern German city with 220,000 inhabitants, a total of 929 patients (aged between 14 and...
Both dependence and abuse diagnoses were associated with greater rates of use. DSM-IV criteria showed acceptable internal reliability, although variability was observed when applied to different substances. Of the drugs assessed, problems with heroin use appeared to be best, and marijuana use least, ...
Commonly Abused Drugs Both legal and illegal drugs have chemicals that can change how your body and mind work. They can give you a pleasurable “high,” ease your stress, or help you avoid problems in your life. Alcohol Alcoholaffects everyone differently. But if you drink too much and too...
“alcohol abuse”, “alcohol addiction”, “alcohol dependence”, alone and together with “self-management”, “drug/alcohol instrumentalization”, “epidemiology”, “development”, “adolescence”, “adulthood”, “old age/ageing”, “personality traits” and “psychiatric disorders”. Furthermore,...
OBJECTIVE: To provide a comprehensive examination of childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol abuse and dependence at age 21, theoretically guided by the social development model. METHOD: Data were taken from an ethnically diverse urban sample of 808 students (51% male), surveyed at age 10 ...
we carried out additional regressions to test if adjusting for smoking altered our results for the 96 target probes. Methylation at each of the 96 probes was regressed on AUD status, controlling for smoking (self-reported scores on the Fagerstrom’s test for nicotine dependence) in addition to...