Drug dependence: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Drug dependence means that a person needs a drug to function normally. Abruptly stopping the drug leads to withdrawal symptoms. Drug addiction is the ...
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Substance dependence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The section about substance dependence in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (more specifically, the 2000 "text revision", the DSM-IV-TR) does ...
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Home | National Institute on Drug Abuse
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The College on Problems of Drug Dependence
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ADDICTION TREATMENT SEARCH - Drug and alcohol rehab treatment ...
Addiction Search is a comprehensive site dedicated to providing health consumers and professionals with up-to-date, research-based information on drug and alcohol ...
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Tobacco Addiction (Nicotine) | National Institute on Drug Abuse
Through the use of tobacco, nicotine is one of the most heavily used addictive drugs and the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the U.S ...
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Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. Our mission is to promote the identification, prevention, and effective treatment of alcohol and other drug use problems in ...
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Addiction Journal
ADDICTION publishes peer-reviewed research reports on alcohol, illicit drugs, tobacco and behavioural addictions, bringing together research conducted within many ...
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Drug Addiction | Intervention Allies
.Historically, addiction has been defined as physical and psychological dependence on psychoactive substance(s) (for example alcohol, heroin and other drugs) which ...
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Research at NIDA: Home
Research at NIDA. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – the Nation's medical research ...
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