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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

co-occurring disorder: a condition that occurs when an individual experiences one or more mental health concerns that worsen their addiction and vice versa delirium tremens: a painful reaction that can occur with certain types of drug withdrawal, causing hallucinations, extreme pain, and serious depression holistic: refers to medical practices that consider a disease’s effects on a person’s entire body, and it may also refer to treatments that help a person with each of those symptoms psychosomatic: a term that describes nonexistent symptoms that patients may believe that they feel speedball: a combination of two or more drugs that have conflicting effects, such as an upper and a downer, that produce a very potent and dangerous high synthetic: refers to an item that is produced artificially using various chemical processes, such as drugs with a similar structure as opium (a natural painkiller)

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