If you're a medical professional interested in gaining a deeper understanding of substance use, addiction, and eating disorders, this on-demand session is perfect. Expertly presented, this session demystifies the terminology, explores the two types of substance use (hazardous use and harmful use), and breaks down the essentials of addiction and dependence. Discover the ICD 10 diagnostic criteria for dependence syndrome and get insightful answers to your questions. This is an excellent opportunity to build on your foundational knowledge and learn more about these critical topics in today's society.
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Ok, hello. Can you hear me? Ok um I'm gonna get started now. I don't know if people can hear me or not. So I'm just gonna get started and if like you have any questions or um not able to hear or some error, error with the screen and do let me know just in the chat. Um so yeah, we're just gonna get started. So today we're going to be talking about substance use, addiction and eating disorders. I think people can hear me. Um yeah. Ok, so um yeah, we're gonna be talking about substance use, addiction and eating disorders and um that's my email in case you have any questions at all. So if you have any questions about the content, do let me know. Um so yeah, this is sort of the things we wanna cover in the lecture today. Um, so yeah, there are two types of substance use, there's hazard, hazardous use, um and harmful use and hazardous use is basically the likelihood that it's going to cause harm if it continues at this level. So it's not causing harm at the moment, but it's likely to cause harm in the future. And then harmful use is that it's actively causing damage to the health, mental or physical of the user um involving adverse social consequences as well. And then you have two important definitions which you need to know. So addiction and dependence, addiction is basically um compulsive drug use despite harmful consequences. So you're using something even though you know, it's harmful towards you, and then dependence is basically a physical adaptation to a substance. So if you, you have things like tolerance to a substance or you're getting withdrawal symptoms from a substance that's dependent, so you can be addicted to something um and dependent on it, but you can't necessarily be dependent on something and addicted to it because the dependence is all about that uh physical adaptation to the substance. Ok? Um So yeah, dependence syndrome, basically by the ICD 10 diagnostic criteria is made, it is basically made of six things. So one, you have a strong desire or compulsion to take a substance. Two, you have a lack of control of substance taking behavior. So you
