Substance-Related Disorder
A chronic disease characterized by uncontrolled drinking and preoccupation Excessive use of psychoactive drugs, such as alcohol, pain medications, or illegal drugs. It can lead to physical, social, or emotional harm.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW215
Diagnosis: Substance-Related Disorder
US Patients: 7% of adults; 5% for alcohol; 2% for other drugs; 72,000 deaths from drug overdoses in 2017; 88,000 alcohol&480,000 tobacco deaths
World Patients: 2017-271 million (5.5% of adults) have used illicit drugs and 35 million, have an use disorder; 585,000 drug-deaths
Sex Ratio: Alcohol-only disorder 237 million men and 46 million women; 3 million alcohol-related deaths.
Age Onset: Children have 2X substance use disorders if parents hae them vs. parents without them.
Brain Area:
Symptoms: persistent use despite harm and adverse consequences: alcohol, caffeine, pot, phencyclidine, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, etc
Progression: can be mild, moderate or severe damage
Causes:
Medications: detox; FDA has 2 for alcohol and opioid use; none for the cocaine, methamphetamine or other substance use disorders
Therapies:
Youtube Video: Substance Use Disorders-Dopamine Pathway
Youtube Video:
Substance Abuse Disorders
Amazon or Library Book:
Stahl’s Illustrated Substance Use and Impulsive Disorders
Support Group: Samhsa.gov; 800-662-4357
(U.S. Government Helpline)
Contact your local Social Security office for possible Disability Benefits through their Disability Determination Services,
Section 12.02.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Harm Reduction Is Nursing Practiceby Brittany L Carney on January 23, 2025
Barriers remain to applying this approach with people who use drugs.
- Estimating mortality attributable to alcohol or tobacco - a cohort study from Germanyby Ulrich John on January 23, 2025
CONCLUSION: First, more than 70% of the deceased persons had one or more alcohol- or tobacco-attributable disorders. This finding suggests that total mortality seems to be the suitable outcome if potential effects of alcohol or tobacco consumption in a general population are to be estimated. Second, the relations of risky alcohol consumption and tobacco smoking with time to death speak in favor of the validity of alcohol- and of tobacco-attributable disorders in death certificates and of...
- Use of alternative payment models for substance use disorder prevention in the United States: development of a conceptual frameworkby Elian Rosenfeld on January 23, 2025
CONCLUSION: Given that the use of APMs for SUD prevention is a new practice, additional research, education, and resources are needed. The conceptual framework and strategies generated by the expert panel offer a path for future research. SUD health care stakeholders should consider ways that SUD prevention can be effectively and equitably implemented within APMs.
- Clinic- and prescriber-level deimplementation strategies help reduce opioid prescribingby Karen Rosenberg on January 23, 2025
ACCORDING TO THIS STUDY.