Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders Flashcards
A user has taken a substance frequently enough to produce clinically important distress or impaired functioning, and to result in certain behavioral characteristics. Found in connection with all classes of drugs but caffeine, it can even develop accidentally, especially from the use of medicine to treat chronic pain
Substance use disorder
This acute clinical condition results from recent overuse of a substance; this is the only substance-related diagnosis likely to apply to a person who uses a substance only once
Substance intoxication
This collection of symptoms, specific for the class of substance, develops when a person who has frequently used a substance discontinues it or markedly reduces the amount used.
Substance withdrawal
These patients repeatedly gamble, often until they lose money, jobs, and friends
Gambling disorder
Substances with their own categories of disorders
- Alcohol
- Amphetamines and other stimulants (including cocaine)
- Caffeine
- Cannabis
- Hallucinogens (including PCP)
- Inhalants
- Opioids
- Sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic drugs
- Tobacco
- Other or unknown substances