01:830:364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alcoholic Liver Disease, Opioid Overdose, Drug Enforcement Agency
20 Jan 2017
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Pre-existing emotional psychiatric conditions associated with drug addiction. The term addiction has been revised repeatedly in the dsm. Tend to participate in it more, but enjoyment decreases. Behavioral addictions share many of the characteristics of drug addictions but. For the recovering addict, drug abstinence is associated with. In the us there are over 150 drug overdose related deaths per day. Addiction risk for young people is at an all time high. Nj is the epicenter of the heroin overdose epidemic in the us. In nj, the highest rates of heroin overdose deaths are in cape may, In the us, new and more highly addictive drugs are more readily available. Onset of drug use before 13 years. Alcohol related overdose deaths claim more lives. Drug overdose deaths are at an all time high. 30,700 deaths from alcohol poisoning and cirrhosis (37% increase from 2002) Does not include deaths from drunk driving, alcohol related homicides and accidents.
