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The phrase "addiction or dependency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing issues related to substance use, behavioral patterns, or psychological reliance on something.
Example: "The treatment program addresses both addiction and dependency to ensure a comprehensive approach to recovery."
Alternatives: "substance abuse or reliance" or "habit or dependence."
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Furthermore, addiction or dependency was an area of concern, as was worry about possible hazards associated with exposure to electromagnetic fields.
But opiates and narcotics are rarely prescribed because of their side effects and the risk of addiction or dependency.[5].
Antibiotics, NSAIDs and psychotropic drugs are associated with important side-effects, including dependency or addiction for some classes of psychotropic drugs.
Others say they did, but at an extreme cost, including acute side effects, crippling dependency or addiction.
"Certainly, it pushes in the direction of saying, 'Hey, whether you want to call it dependency or addiction, it's real, it's important, and we should be paying attention to this,'" he said.
The medical definition of "dependency" or "addiction", according to the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV) and the World Health Organization (ICD-10), include meeting any three of the following criteria: Tolerance.
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These theories are differentiation-maturation mutations cooperating with proliferation/survival mutations, lineage-addiction or -dependency models, and the existence of "cancer stem cells" arising from an ordered sequence of phenotypically distinct stem-cell and intermediate-precursor populations [ 62- 64].
Other researchers are looking at psilocybin to treat alcohol dependency or smoking addiction.
Consider a student that attended my university class, Addictions and Dependencies.
Although the underlying mechanisms responsible for the development of oncogene addiction or co-dependency in general, and in cells expressing Myc and FGFR2K569E in particular, remain unclear, these cells may offer a useful model for dissecting this phenomenon.
Most notably, we have moved from a one-size-fits-all approach that emphasized cytotoxic chemotherapy to a personalised medicine strategy that focuses on the discovery and development of molecularly targeted drugs that exploit the particular genetic addictions, dependencies and vulnerabilities of cancer cells.
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