Drug Addiction in Pregnancy [Abridged]

Addiction in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

منظور از اعتیاد بکار گیری مواد روان گردان برای ایجاد لذت یا پرهیز از ناراحتی جسمی و عاطفی است، که می تواند شامل اعتیاد به سیگار(نیکوتین)، کافئین، الکل، مواد مخدر و سایر مواد آرامبخش باشد. |

Drug addiction in pregnancy: disease not moral failure.

Nurses have demonstrated concern for years about their interactions with pregnant women who abuse drugs. Reports of nurses' concern with substance abuse have been reported in the literature since the 1980s. As with any chronic disease, drug addiction causes physiologic changes, and the pathology that occurs in the brain drives characteristic behaviors. Research suggests that choices that addict...

New Dimension in Drug Addiction Therapy

Neuroimaging in Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is clinically defined in behavioral terms. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV of the American Psychiatric Association defines “substance dependence” as a maladaptive pattern of substance use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three or more by the following criteria: tolerance, withdrawal, excessive use, inability to cut down, a great...

Drug addiction.

N Engl J Med 2003;349:975-86. Copyright © 2003 Massachusetts Medical Society. rug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder in which compulsive drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior persists despite serious negative consequences. Addictive substances induce pleasant states (euphoria in the initiation phase) or relieve distress. Continued use induces adaptive changes in the central nervous syst...