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  1. ... psychologically dependent. Secondly, the criteria upon which the diagnosis of addiction and the estimation of its morbidity are based ... drug abuse is not a disease, but a symptom of an underlying character disorder. ... drug addiction as one form of personality disturbance or character ...
  2. ... recognizing the problem. Though denial is a common symptom of addiction, people who are addicted have far less denial ... and risks of withdrawal. For example, for narcotic addiction, methadone or ... withdrawal symptoms and behaviors. These programs use techniques to get ...
  3. ... DRUGS REPORT 15 time to time. Witnesses described addiction as a symptom of varying personality inadequacies rather than a disease ... of such a ward, cannot be established. Narcotic addiction is regarded as a symptom of personality disorder and the addict, therefore, receives ...
  4. ... fully as difficult 4 to cure as heroin addiction. ' The symptoms of demerol and heroin addiction are almost identical, police said. Y ANOTHER DOCTOR " ...
  5. ... 1931, 81: 413-5.—Doane, J. C. Drug addiction; a symptom. Ther. Gaz., Detr., 1924, n. ser., 40: 543-5.—Glover, E. On the aetiology of drug-addiction. Internat. J. Psychoanal., Lond., 1932, 13: 298-328. ----- ...
  6. ... further administration of the drug of the patient’s addiction. In general, the symptoms, signs and phenomena consist of a sense of ... further administration of the drug of the patient’s addiction. In general, the symptoms, signs and phenomena consist of a sense of ...
  7. ... withdrawal. It is in this way that the diagnosis of drug addiction is chiefly made—not by direct examination, but by the so-called withdrawal symptoms. The drug addict has always been unpopular with ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Insanity and law : a treatise on forensic psychiatry 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Son & Co., [1924]
    ... also extremely probable that, in most cases, drug addiction is a symptom of a psychopathic state, though it produces symptoms ... be an important indication of the fact that addiction had pre- ceded. When such withdrawal symptoms do not occur, it is good evidence that ...
  9. ... drug addiction. Cocaine and its physiological effects. Cocaine addiction. Withdrawal symptoms. Morphine poisoning. The relative infrequency of habit-formation ...
  10. ... in any psychiatric disorder and particularly in drug addiction. The symptoms of the underlying personality problem—in this instance the taking of drugs—may cease, the person may make a relatively normal ... “Drug Addiction: The General 1 Kenneth : Problem,” September 1956, and ...
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