Overview of Substance Use Disorders

Diagnostic Criteria and Medications Used in Treatment Project funded by a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Innovation Grant Cory Waller MD discusses: -The Biopsychosocial etiology of addiction -Addiction as a brain-based disease -Addiction as a chronic disease similar to diabetes type-2, HTN, and asthma -The comorbidities in substance abuse disorders -Changes in diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders in the DSM-V -Medications used in the treatment of substance use disorders