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Opioid Dependence : Complications

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Opiate withdrawal refers to the wide range of symptoms that occur after stopping or dramatically reducing opiate drugs after heavy and prolonged use(several weeks or more).Opiate drugs include heroin, morphine, codeine, Oxycontin, Dilaudid, methad...
Source:ADAM
Date:April 20, 2009
Insomnia is difficulty falling or staying asleep. In many cases, it can be relieved with a few simple behavioral changes or medication.
Source:ADAM
Date:April 25, 2008
Insomnia is the inability to obtain an adequate amount or quality of sleep. The difficulty can be in falling asleep, remaining asleep, or both.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Insomnia is the inability to obtain an adequate amount or quality of sleep. The difficulty can be in falling asleep, remaining asleep, or both.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Insomnia is a condition that occurs when a person in unable to get long enough or refreshing enough sleep at night. Insomnia can result from an inability to fall asleep, an inability to stay asleep, or waking too early before having gotten enough ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases.Chronic brain syndrome; Lewy body dementia; DLB; Vascular dementia.The two major causes of non-reversible(degenerative) dementia are:.Alzheimer''s disease Loss of brain function...
Source:ADAM
Date:February 13, 2008
Dementia is a condition characterized by a chronic decline in cognitive functions contrasted with a person''s usual state of functioning. It is seen most often in people sixty-five years and older, and the incidence increases with age.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living, lasting more than six months, not present since birth, and not associated with a loss or alteration of consciousness.Dementia is a group of sym...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome(group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with the tasks of daily life.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome(group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with the tasks of daily life.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living, lasting more than six months, not present since birth, and not associated with a loss or alteration of consciousness.Dementia is a group of sym...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Dementia is a condition characterized by a progressive, irreversible decline in mental ability, accompanied by changes in behavior and personality. There is commonly a loss of memory and skills that are required to carry out activities of daily li...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
The term dementia refers to symptoms, including changes in memory, personality, and behavior, that result from a change in the functioning of the brain. These declining changes are severe enough to impair the ability of a person to perform a funct...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome(group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with performing the tasks of daily life.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Constipation refers to infrequent or hard stools, or difficulty passing stools. Constipation may involve pain during the passage of a bowel movement, inability to pass a bowel movement after straining or pushing for more than 10 minutes, or no bow...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 22, 2008
Constipation is an acute or chronic condition in which bowel movements occur less often than usual or consist of hard, dry stools that are painful or difficult to pass. Bowel habits vary, but an adult who has not had a bowel movement in three days...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Constipation is an acute or chronic condition in which bowel movements occur less often than usual or consist of hard, dry stools that are painful or difficult to pass. Although constipation is a relative term, with normal patterns of bowel moveme...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Difficulty with producing a bowel movement, or infrequent bowel movements.Constipation, a condition that can affect the human digestive system at any stage of life, is rarely serious or chronic. Because bowel functions vary from individual to indi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Constipation is an acute or chronic condition in which bowel movements occur less often than usual or consist of hard, dry stools that are painful or difficult to pass. Bowel habits vary, but an adult who has not had a bowel movement in three days...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Coma, from the Greek word"koma," meaning deep sleep, is a state of extreme unresponsiveness, in which an individual exhibits no voluntary movement or behavior. Furthermore, in a deep coma, even painful stimuli(actions which, when performed on a he...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Coma, from the Greek word koma, meaning deep sleep, is a state of extreme unresponsiveness, in which an individual exhibits no voluntary movement or behavior. Furthermore, in a deep coma, even painful stimuli(actions which, when performed on a hea...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Anorexia is characterized by a loss of appetite or lack of desire to eat.Anorexia is common in cancer patients with reported incidence between 15% and 40%. Primary anorexia is especially prevalent in patients with advanced malignancy, and is frequ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Suicide is the act of deliberately taking one''s own life. Suicidal behavior is any deliberate action with potentially life-threatening consequences, such as taking a drug overdose or deliberately crashing a car.Suicidal behaviors can accompany man...
Source:ADAM
Date:January 15, 2009
Suicide is the act of ending one''s own life. Suicidal behavior are thoughts or tendencies that put a person at risk for committing suicide.Suicide, attempted suicide, and thoughts of committing suicide are, as of the early 2000s, growing problems ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Aspiration pneumonia is inflammation of the lungs and airways to the lungs(bronchial tubes) from breathing in foreign material.Anaerobic pneumonia; Aspiration of vomitus; Necrotizing pneumonia; Aspiration pneumonitis; Chemical pneumonitis.Aspirati...
Source:ADAM
Date:March 17, 2009
Opioids are a class of drugs that include both natural and synthetic substances. The natural opioids(referred to as opiates) include opium and morphine.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
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