Inhalants use disorders

According to DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2000), inhalant use disorders include inhalant abuse and inhalant dependence. The DSM-IV-TR criteria for these conditions apply only to the use of volatile solvents, and... 

Diagnostic criteria for inhalant use disorders in DSM-IV-TR are similar to those in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) (World Health Organization 1992). These criteria include biological, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions. The DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of inhalant dependence is given when three or more of the seven criteria are present (see Table 8-2). The first criteria to be considered here are tolerance and withdrawal. These phenomena are considered to be forms of adaptation to chronic administration of these compounds and were discussed extensively earlier in this chapter. 

Clearly, more studies are needed to delineate more precisely the phenomenology of inhalant use disorders, including the phenomenology of anesthetic... 

Clinical Evaluation of Patients With Inhalant Use Disorders... 

Accurate diagnosis of patients with inhalant use disorders may require a variety of methods, including psychiatric history and mental status examination, physical examination and laboratory testing, neuropsychological testing, and neurophysiological testing. 

Given that cognitive and behavioral disturbances are commonly associated with inhalant use disorders, diagnostic assessment of individuals with such disorders is probably best done by using a standardized interview schedule, such as the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDl) (Robins et... 

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