Types of Addiction
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Substances of Abuse
Prescription Drugs
While prescription drugs can be beneficial when used correctly, misuse can lead to serious health problems, including addiction, overdose, and death. They can also cause a range of side effects, from drowsiness and dizziness to more serious issues like heart problems and seizures.
Fentanyl
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. It can cause serious breathing problems or death, especially in people who are not tolerant to narcotic medications. Recently, illegal fentanyl is being found in other substances without the users knowledge. The potency is unknown too, thus resulting in accidental overdoses.
About Addiction
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By itself, repeated use of a psychoactive substance or gambling is not an addiction – unless use is beyond the person’s ability to control, even when wanting to cut down use, and impairing functioning at school, work or home. Another marker of addiction and criteria for that diagnosis is that a person spends a great deal of time involved with the substance/behavior-obtaining it, using it, or recovering from its effects.
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In addition, craving for the substance/activity can be intense, to the point where a person is not able to thin of anything else, especially in places where the substance/activity was obtained or used in the past. What also signifies addiction is the risk attached to the use of the substance/behavior- whether using in hazardous situation or developing physical or psychological problems as a result of use.
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Other common signifiers of addiction are the development of tolerance- marked either by a need for increased amounts of the substance to have an effect or diminished effect of the same drug- and withdrawal, the experience of physical and psychological distress for a period after abruptly stopping the drug.