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self-medication hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Addiction science

the idea that people use particular substances to relieve painful emotional states they struggle to manage.

In addiction science, self-medication hypothesis refers to the idea that people use particular substances to relieve painful emotional states they struggle to manage. This meaning comes from Khantzian (1997) in Harvard Review of Psychiatry.[1]

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Khantzian, E. J. (1997). The Self-Medication Hypothesis of Substance Use Disorders: A Reconsideration and Recent Applications. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 4(5), 231-244. https://doi.org/10.3109/10673229709030550

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