Sleep Disorders—Drug Abuse

Also called: Substance abuse

Drug abuse is a serious public health problem that affects almost every community and family in some way. Each year drug abuse causes millions of serious illnesses or injuries among Americans. Abused drugs include

• Methamphetamine
• Anabolic steroids
• Club drugs
• Cocaine
• Heroin
• Inhalants
• Marijuana
• Prescription drugs, including opioids

Drug abuse also plays a role in many major social problems, such as drugged driving, violence, stress, and child abuse. Drug abuse can lead to homelessness, crime, and missed work or problems with keeping a job. It harms unborn babies and destroys families. There are different types of treatment for drug abuse. But the best is to prevent drug abuse in the first place.

NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse

• Drug abuse (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Drug dependence (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Toxicology screen (Medical Encyclopedia)

Is it hard for you to fall asleep or stay asleep through the night? Do you wake up feeling tired or feel very sleepy during the day, even if you have had enough sleep? You might have a sleep disorder. The most common kinds are

• Insomnia – a hard time falling or staying asleep
• Sleep apnea – breathing interruptions during sleep
• Restless legs syndrome – a tingling or prickly sensation in the legs
• Narcolepsy – daytime “sleep attacks”

Nightmares, night terrors, sleepwalking, sleep talking, head banging, wetting the bed and grinding your teeth are kinds of sleep problems called parasomnias. There are treatments for most sleep disorders. Sometimes just having good sleep habits can help.

• Changing your sleep habits (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Drowsiness (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Idiopathic hypersomnia (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Irregular sleep-wake syndrome (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Isolated sleep paralysis (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Medicines for sleep (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Narcolepsy (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Nightmares (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Sleep and your health (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Sleep disorders (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Teenagers and sleep (Medical Encyclopedia)