Disciplines and Occupations

Addiction Medicine

A medical specialty focused on the diagnosis and treatment of ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR disorders, including SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS and IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; and the management of co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions

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Structured Summary

Abstract

A medical specialty focused on the diagnosis and treatment of ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR disorders, including SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS and IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; and the management of co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Medicine, Addiction
  • Addiction Psychiatry
  • Psychiatry, Addiction

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2018

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Previous Indexing

  • Substance-Related Disorders (1990-2017)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. H02w.403w.007w

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NLM Classification

WM 21

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Addiction Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000073316. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000073316
  2. Addiction Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction_medicine
  3. Addiction Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55190072