Addiction and Substance Use Disorder The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) describes the term “addiction,” as a compulsive condition that alters the brain so that behaviors of drug-seeking and substance use are the most prevailing, with impaired capacity to consider the consequences of thei...
By characterizing sources of excess death, we sought to identify potentially avoidable causes and opportunities for prevention through integration of general medical, mental health, and addiction services. We anticipated that in addition to an excess of drug use–associated deaths, there would also be...
Association between mental health disorders, problem drug use, and regular prescription opioid use. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(19):2087-2093. ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 26. Wakeman SE, Rich JD. Addiction treatment within US correctional facilities: bridging the gap between current practice...
substance useaddictionpublic perceptionThis study expanded on past research on perception of individuals by comparing people who are described as using substances with people who are described as smoking and people who are described as obese. This research was a 2 (active difficulty vs. remission) ...
Pre-hoc subgroup analyses included (1) age of substance user: adolescents vs. adults; (2) consumption severity: addiction vs. long-term use vs. occasional use; (3) type of substance: alcohol vs. tobacco vs cannabis vs. cocaine vs. stimulants vs. opioids vs. ketamine, and papers that po...
Individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) undergo treatment to recover from addiction. However, exerting self-control, which is essential for successful abstinence from drug addiction, can cause ego depletion. This study experimentally investigated the effect of ego depletion on interpersonal trust ...
Fig. 2: Pleiotropy between substance use disorders. a Genetic correlations between substance use disorders (extracted from refs. [25, 26, 138], which estimated correlations using linkage disequilibrium score regression). b Substance use disorders cluster to form a general addiction factor (path coef...
Substance use can also lead to negative health outcomes, including car- diovascular and/or cognitive distress, addiction, and res- piratory disease [6, 7]. Government organizations have focused on the negative effects of substance use among youth, and most continue to recommend that youth not ...
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Best practices. Concurrent mental health and substance use disorders. Ottawa: Health; 2002. Google Scholar Havassy B, Alvidrez J, Owen K. Comparisons of patients with comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders: implications for treatment and service deli...
Substance use is a complex problem that is influenced by a number of factors. There is no way to predict who will become addicted to drugs, but a combination of influences can increase a person's risk of developing an addiction. Genes, other mental health conditions, developmental factors, an...