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    Drug Abuse Has A Huge Range of Definitions Related To Taking A

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    Drug abuse refers to taking drugs like alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, and opium for non-medical purposes, which can lead to physical, psychological, and social harm as well as legal penalties. Drug abuse can induce symptoms resembling mental illnesses both while intoxicated and withdrawing, and in some cases these substance-induced disorders can persist long after stopping drug use. Certain drugs like benzodiazepines are particularly likely to cause prolonged withdrawal effects that last for years. While drug abuse affects the central nervous system, it also impacts other body systems. New drugs to treat substance abuse face barriers to adoption in healthcare settings despite their approval.

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    Drug abuse refers to taking drugs like alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, and opium for non-medical purposes, which can lead to physical, psychological, and social harm as well as legal penalties. Drug abuse can induce symptoms resembling mental illnesses both while intoxicated and withdrawing, and in some cases these substance-induced disorders can persist long after stopping drug use. Certain drugs like benzodiazepines are particularly likely to cause prolonged withdrawal effects that last for years. While drug abuse affects the central nervous system, it also impacts other body systems. New drugs to treat substance abuse face barriers to adoption in healthcare settings despite their approval.

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    Drug abuse refers to taking drugs like alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, and opium for non-medical purposes, which can lead to physical, psychological, and social harm as well as legal penalties. Drug abuse can induce symptoms resembling mental illnesses both while intoxicated and withdrawing, and in some cases these substance-induced disorders can persist long after stopping drug use. Certain drugs like benzodiazepines are particularly likely to cause prolonged withdrawal effects that last for years. While drug abuse affects the central nervous system, it also impacts other body systems. New drugs to treat substance abuse face barriers to adoption in healthcare settings despite their approval.

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    Drug Abuse Has A Huge Range of Definitions Related To Taking A

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    Drug abuse refers to taking drugs like alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, and opium for non-medical purposes, which can lead to physical, psychological, and social harm as well as legal penalties. Drug abuse can induce symptoms resembling mental illnesses both while intoxicated and withdrawing, and in some cases these substance-induced disorders can persist long after stopping drug use. Certain drugs like benzodiazepines are particularly likely to cause prolonged withdrawal effects that last for years. While drug abuse affects the central nervous system, it also impacts other body systems. New drugs to treat substance abuse face barriers to adoption in healthcare settings despite their approval.

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    Drug abuse has a huge range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic

    or non-medical effect. All of these definitions imply a negative judgment of the drug use in question (compare with the term responsible drug use for alternative views). Some of the drugs most often associated with this term include alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methaqualone, and opium alkaloids. Use of these drugs may lead to criminal penalty in addition to possible physical, social, and psychological harm, both strongly depending on local jurisdiction.[2] Other definitions of drug abuse fall into four main categories: public health definitions, mass communication and vernacular usage, medical definitions, and political and criminal justice definitions. Depending on the actual compound, drug misuse including alcohol may lead to health problems, social problems, morbidity, injuries, unprotected sex, violence, deaths, motor vehicle accidents, homicides, suicides, mortality, physical dependence or psychological addiction.[5] Drug abuse, including alcohol and prescription drugs can induce symptomatology which resembles mental illness. This can occur both in the intoxicated state and also during the withdrawal state. In some cases these substance induced psychiatric disorders can persist long after detoxification, such as prolonged psychosis or depression after amphetamine or cocaine abuse. A protracted withdrawal syndrome can also occur with symptoms persisting for months after cessation of use. Benzodiazepines are the most notable drug for inducing prolonged withdrawal effects with symptoms sometimes persisting for years after cessation of use. Abuse of hallucinogens can trigger delusional and other psychotic phenomena long after cessation of use and cannabis may trigger panic attacks during intoxication and with use it may cause a state similar to dysthymia. Severe anxiety and depression are commonly induced by sustained alcohol abuse which in most cases abates with prolonged abstinence. Even moderate alcohol sustained use may increase anxiety and depression levels in some individuals. In most cases these drug induced psychiatric disorders fade away with prolonged abstinence.[6] Drug abuse makes central nervous system (CNS) effects, which produce changes in mood, levels of awareness or perceptions and sensations. Most of these drugs also alter systems other than the CNS. Some of these are often thought of as being abused. Some drugs appear to be more likely to lead to uncontrolled use than others.[7] Traditionally, new pharmacotherapies are quickly adopted in primary care settings, however, drugs for substance abuse treatment have faced many barriers. Naltrexone, a drug originally marketed under the name "ReVia," and now marketed in intramuscular formulation as "Vivitrol" or in oral formulation as a generic, is a medication approved for the treatment of alcohol dependence. This drug has reached very few patients. This may be due to a number of factors, including resistance by Addiction Medicine specialists and lack of resources.[8]

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