drug dependency

collocation in English

meaningsofdruganddependency

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drug
noun[C]
uk
/drʌɡ/us
/drʌɡ/
any natural or artificially made chemical that is used as ...
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dependency
noun
uk
/dɪˈpen.dən.si/us
/dɪˈpen.dən.si/
a situation in which you need something or someone and are unable to continue normally ...
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(Definition ofdruganddependencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Effects fordrugdependencywere nonsignificant after controlling for adolescent drug use, and differences in terms of depressive episodes were not significant at all.
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The long-term sequelae of a fetal experience ofdrugdependencyare not known at all.
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Questions concerning disadvantage in later life such as homelessness,drugdependencyand alcoholism, well researched among younger populations, have barely been touched upon among older people.
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Of the 29% who reported a family history of psychiatric disorder, in 16% this was alcoholism ordrugdependency, 8% were neurotic and 4% were psychotic.
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This induction of passivedrugdependencyand the consequent abstinence symptoms seen in the child soon after birth should be included in the catalogue of drug-induced teratogenic effects.
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Drug addicts are not paid to attenddrugdependencyservices.
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There has been no national assessment of the incidence of people who are diagnosed as having a mental illness who also have adrugdependency.
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A separate arm of the same organisation was then formed to collect the money owed by the unfortunate people who had developed adrugdependency.
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Often these problems are compounded by poor health and housing stock and a culture ofdrugdependency.
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Under these orders serious offenders withdrugdependencyproblems will be placed on specialist treatment programmes aimed at reducing or eliminating their dependency.
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The access-to-work programme, which is working to get people with adrugdependencyproblem into employment, needs more resources and more support.
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There needs to be significant developments along those lines for the simple fact is thatdrugdependencyleads inexorably to criminal activity.
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The question has to be asked—is prison the proper place to put young individuals with adrugdependency?
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They will provide high quality support from custody to the community for non-violent offenders with a history ofdrugdependency.
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It is extremely expensive to take somebody fromdrugdependencythrough to work.
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The relationship between drug addiction,drugdependencyand quality of home life is horrible to contemplate.
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Wheredrugdependencyis identified help in withdrawing is offered, its nature determined by the medical officer's clinical assessment of the individual case.
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Steps are being taken to set up a unit in which research into the problems ofdrugdependencycan be undertaken.
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