Wellness

Alcohol use disorder is a medical condition which involves heavy or frequent alcohol drinking compulsively even when it causes problems, emotional distress or physical harm.

Substance use disorder involving any of the class of substance which stimulates the Central Nervous System.

This is the diagnosis given for problematic marijuana use. CUD was introduced in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, or DSM 5.

Prescription medicine use/abuse is when you take a medication for a reason other than why the doctor prescribed it for the stipulated period or self medication

Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) can involve misuse of prescribed opioid medications or use of diverted opioid based syrups.

Polysubstance use involves the consumption of multiple substances at once.