drug dependence
Findings
No curated finding names drug dependence yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Drug dependence - replaced the term "drug addiction" and is defined as a state, psychic and sometimes also physical, resulting from the interaction between a living organism and a drug, characterized by behavioral and other responses that always include a compulsion to take the drug on a continuous or periodic basis in order to experience its psychic effects, and sometimes to avoid the discomfort of its absence. Tolerance may or may not be present. A person may be dependent on more than one drug.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005303), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: drug dependence
- Also called
- chemical dependence