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Article: Complications
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- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
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COMPLICATIONS
This section has articles on some aspects of the physical and psychological complications of substance abuse. It contains an overview of
Medical and Behavioral Toxicity
and individual articles on the following:
Cardiovascular System; Cognition; Dermatological;
Endocrine and Reproductive Systems; Immunologic; Liver (Alcohol); Liver Damage (Other Drugs); Mental Disorders; Neurological; Nutritional
; and those
Due to Route of Administration
. Each article is extensively cross-referenced and will refer the reader to other articles throughout the Enc
yclopedia that will either expand or simplify concepts introduced here, and to articles on the many other behavioral and nonmedical ...