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A codependent person is essentially addicted to helping people in a way that drastically exceeds the normal care someone would exhibit towards another person. Codependency sufferers need to be needed ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Crack cocaine, often just called "crack," is a more dangerous form of cocaine. It is called "free base" because it has not been chemically neutralised by an acid base, and comes ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Crystal meth is a type of amphetamine. It is a crystal form of a drug formally known as methamphetamine, and can be snorted, injected or swallowed. There is also another type which can be smoked, ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Addiction to various types of drugs is a form of what is called substance addiction. Substance dependency often involves a physical as well as psychological dependence on the addiction, meaning that ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Eating disorder sufferers often exhibit abnormal behavior when eating food. This can take on a wide range of forms from following rigid or bizarre diets, obsessively counting calories on everything, ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

Ecstasy is an artificially created drug designed to give a high based on hallucinations and a potent stimulant effect, as well as causing distortions in a person's grasp on reality and time. Pure ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

An addiction to gambling, or compulsive gambling, is sometimes called a type of "impulse control disorder" where someone has trouble restraining themselves from acting on an inclination or ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Psychiatry

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