A Biological Evaluation for Addiction

Howard Wetsman MD
Nov 1 · 5 min read

You’ve heard a lot of things about evaluating someone with addiction. Because addiction is so often confused with DSM Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), most people do an evaluation for those. Because SUDs don’t deal with underlying biology, DSM has a load of other diagnoses that explain symptoms not accounted for by SUDs. Therefore, you hear about the need for a full psychiatric evaluation for co-occurring disorders. So initial evaluations have ballooned into long, involved, and often mechanized, evaluations that are very thorough.

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Howard Wetsman MD

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Addictionologist educating the world soon at GenEdSystems.com. Solves problems with TOC. Author of Questions and Answers on Addiction. Twitter: @addictiondocMD

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