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Complications List

Complications could include:
  • Family problems
  • Relationship Problems

Complications Overview Articles

Narcissistic personality disorder
Relationship and family problems; Alcohol or other drug dependence.
Source:ADAM
Date:November 15, 2006
Narcissistic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is defined by the Fourth Edition Text Revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV-TR , a handbook that mental health professionals use to diagnose mental disorders) as one ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders

Specific Complications Articles

Alcohol Use and Abuse
Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is the most commonly used drug in the world. Pharmacologically, alcohol is classified as a central nervous system depressant.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Alcohol and related disorders
Alcoholism is defined as alcohol seeking and consumption behavior that is harmful. Long-term and uncontrollable harmful consumption can cause alcohol-related disorders that include: antisocial personality disorder , mood disorders (bipolar and major depression) and anxiety disorders.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Drug abuse and dependence
Drug addiction (dependence) is compulsively using a substance, despite its negative and sometimes dangerous effects. Drug abuse is using a drug excessively, or for purposes for which it was not medically intended. A physical dependence on a substance (needing the drug to function) is not always part of the definition of addiction. Some drugs (for example, some blood pressure medications) don't cause addiction but do cause physical dependence. Other drugs cause addiction without physical dependence (cocaine withdrawal, for example, doesn't have symptoms like vomiting and chills; it mainly involves depression. See also: Drug abuse; Drug abuse first aid.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 27, 2007
Disease concept of chemical dependency
Disease concept of chemical dependency is the concept that a disorder (such as chemical dependency) is like a disease and has a characteristic set of signs, symptoms, and natural history (clinical course, or outcome). The disease concept has long been accepted by the medical community.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
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