What is Drug abuse?
What is Drug abuse?
- Drug abuse: Addiction to any of various illicit drugs.
- Drug abuse: The use of a drug for a reason other than which it was intended or in a manner or in quantities other than directed.
Source - Diseases Database
- Drug abuse: excessive use of drugs.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Drug abuse: Introduction
Types of Drug abuse:
Types of Drug abuse:
Broader types of Drug abuse:
How many people get Drug abuse?
Prevalance of Drug abuse: more than 4 million women need treatment for drug abuse (NWHIC)
Prevalance Rate of Drug abuse: approx 1 in 68 or 1.47% or 4 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Drug abuse:
Research indicates that more than 4 million women need treatment for
drug abuse. (Source: excerpt from Drug Abuse and Treatment: NWHIC)
How serious is Drug abuse?
Complications of Drug abuse:
see complications of Drug abuse
Deaths for Drug abuse: 19,102 persons died of drug-induced causes in 1999 USA (NVSR Sep 2001)
What causes Drug abuse?
Causes of Drug abuse: see causes of Drug abuse
Risk factors for Drug abuse:
see
risk factors for Drug abuse
What are the symptoms of Drug abuse?
Symptoms of Drug abuse:
see symptoms of Drug abuse
Complications of Drug abuse:
see complications of Drug abuse
Drug abuse: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Drug abuse.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Drug abuse.
How is it treated?
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Drug abuse: General practitioner, Primary care physician, Neuropharmacologist, Pharmacologist, Behavioral psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Expert in chemical dependency, Infectious disease specialist, Dermatologist, Cardiologist
;
see also doctors and medical specialists for Drug abuse.
Treatments for Drug abuse:
see treatments for Drug abuse
Research for Drug abuse:
see research for Drug abuse
Society issues for Drug abuse
Cost statistics for Drug abuse:
The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Drug abuse:
- Estimated $52,123,000 spent in public hospitals on alcohol or drug use and disorders in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- Estimated $17,172,000 spent in public hospitals on alcohol and drug use and disorders in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
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Hospitalization statistics for Drug abuse:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Drug abuse:
- 0.03% (3,917) of hospital consultant episodes were for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 95% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 66% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 34% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 38% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 12.1 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 7 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Drug abuse:
Organs and body systems related to Drug abuse include:
Name and Aliases of Drug abuse
Main name of condition: Drug abuse
Class of Condition for Drug abuse: behavior addiction
Other names or spellings for Drug abuse:
Drug addiction
Substance abuse, Habit
Source - WordNet 2.1
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