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Synonyms

Drug abuse; Drug addiction; Drug dependence; Drug misuse; Substance abuse; Substance addiction; Substance dependence; Substance misuse

Definition

A class of mental disorders characterized by compulsive seeking and use of mind-altering substances despite experiencing severe negative consequences.

Introduction

The nature of substance use disorders (SUDs) has changed exponentially over the years with the development of novel and highly potent synthetic formulations and creative methods of ingesting substances to achieve a variety of euphoric effects (Lovrecic et al. 2019; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2017). The global burden of SUDs has reached epidemic proportions for some classes of substances with unprecedented deaths from opioids prompting the declaration of a public health epidemic in the United States (Kanouse and Compton 2015; Kolodny et al. 2015; Rudd et al. 2016; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2017). Integrated biopsychosocial models of the...

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