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FDA plan to limit painkiller abuse may have impact for patients who need them
While millions of people use prescription painkillers for relief, their abuse has reached epidemic levels in some places. To combat rising addiction rates, the FDA has a new plan to limit the distribution of pain meds, specifically containing hydrocodone.
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Earl Campbell Opens Up About His Addiction To Painkillers And His Campaign …
Ten years ago, if anyone had asked me what I knew about fighting painkiller addiction, I would have shrugged. I always believed that as an NFL player competing at a high level, and later becoming a husband and father, that it was part of my job to …
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Pain pills can be prescriptions for addiction, death
DETROIT — It typically starts with a visit to the doctor for a backache or to dull pain after surgery, an accident or a sports injury. It ends with addiction. Misuse of prescription painkillers is on the rise, and experts say increasingly, it's …
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Question by Michael Brian: What addictions does the APA recognize as actual addiction disorders?
I know technically anything can be an “addiction” but I’m trying to find a list that the APA has put out that lists the actual addictions someone can be diagnosed with.

Best answer:

Answer by Peachy Perfect
Depends on what you count as an addiction. The DSM-IV (current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) doesn’t have a definition for the word “addiction” and doesn’t use it.

As far as what *you* might classify as an “addiction”, you can be diagnosed with either Substance Abuse or Substance Dependence, depending on the severity of the addiction. This involves either the dependence on or abuse of substances, like alcohol, heroin, caffeine –yes, I said caffeine–, cocaine, nicotine, etc.

As far as other “addictions” to non-substances go, the ones found under the “Impulse Control Disorders” category include:
– Pathological Gambling (people addicted to gambling)
– Kleptomania (people addicted to stealing)
– Pyromania (people addicted to setting fires)
– Trichotillomania (people addicted to pulling their hair out — yes, I’m serious)

There are lots of other disorders, including but definitely not limited to pedophilia and hypochondriasis, which you might consider addictions (pedophilia being when you are “addicted” to sexual endeavors with children, hypochondriasis being when you are “addicted” to being sick), but I don’t really count those under the “addictions” category, personally.

However, in the DSM-5, which is set to come out in May 2013, they are going to add a ton more disorders involving addictions under the category “Substance Use and Addictive Disorders”. But mostly the only change that will be made is specifying the type of substance that one is abusing, dependent on, and/or suffering withdrawals from. For example, instead of being diagnosed with plain “Substance Abuse” with alcohol listed as a side note, an alcoholic would be diagnosed with “Alcohol Use Disorder”, “Alcohol Intoxication”, and/or “Alcohol Withdrawal”.

Scientists examine the causes and treatment of addictive behaviour
Such a system allows changes in how genes are expressed in cells without altering our genetic code, and forms a type of genetic memory. Addiction to all four major classes of abused substances – psychostimulants, opiates, alcohol and nicotine – has …
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The 6 Types of Sex Addict
I will cover the six types of sex addicts briefly. I go into greater detail on the CD's The 6 Types of Sex Addicts and the follow up CD, Treatment for the 6 Types of Sex Addicts. This subject and application is also available on several hours of DVDs …
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Is Sugar a Drug? Addiction Explained
Some studies claim to find that junk food is as addictive as drugs, but experts say that what actually determines how addictive something is, and whether an individual becomes addicted, is complex. In the most recent headline-grabbing research, a study …
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Krokodil use reportedly spreading: What makes dangerous drug so addictive?
More cases of Krokodil use are reportedly popping up around the United States, prompting some medical professionals to warn that the addictive, poisonous drug has reached American shores. The Chicago Tribune reported last week that at least six people …
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Local forum focuses on substance abuse, addiction
DENVER – October marks 50 years since President John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Act. The purpose of the legislation was to improve the care and treatment of those who suffer from mental illness. A mental health forum was held …
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Duck Dynasty Book Reveals Family's Struggles With Drug, Alcohol Abuse
Si Robertson is revealing in his new book, "Si-cology: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle," the family's struggles with mental illness, alcoholism, and drug abuse before their rise to fame. Growing up was not easy Si and his brother …
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Book review: 'Shannon's Hope' an emotional story about love, addiction
So when she receives a phone call in the middle of the night from her missing, drug-addict stepdaughter, she is more than willing to take her in and prove that with enough love, she can help cure Keisha's addictions. But Shannon's husband isn't so …
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Power, Powerlessness and Addiction, by Jim Orford
The result is a book that is both scholarly and accessible to readers who do not have specialist knowledge. Its central theme is power, and the way in which people with addiction problems, their families and their wider communities are relatively …
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Joe Jonas Drug Addiction, Rehab Rumors Shot Down by Rep
Additionally, a source told Star magazine that Joe has "been dealing with substance abuse issues for quite some time," adding, "the tour would have never survived with how Joe was behaving." A rep tells Entertainment Tonight that the drug/rehab rumors …
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Online Health Marketplaces Open October 1st, Bringing Addiction Treatment …
When online health marketplaces opened on October 1st, the US began enrolling Americans in low cost insurance plans that include addiction treatment as a part of basic health coverage. These new changes are currently offered on the web, under the 2010 …
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Drug Rehab Acworth Revamps Addiction Treatment With Great Success
There's a new approach to addiction treatment at Drug Rehab Acworth that has a lot of people talking. Thanks to a few fundamental changes, patients are increasingly able to make it through rehab and remain sober after finishing the treatment. Drug and …
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Judges in Ohio use injections to combat drug addiction
Some Ohio judges are using a controversial and expensive injection therapy to battle drug addiction. Several years ago the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a drug injected once a month, known as Vivitrol. The injections block receptors …
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NIDA's drug abuse information for teens goes mobile
Teens — and adults who care for them — can now find answers to questions about drug abuse and addiction more easily, and through smartphones and tablets. Spanish language versions of easy to understand resources on drug abuse and addiction are …
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