Substance Use

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
SU
Pronunciation
/ˈsəbstəns juz/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. This suggests that substance use disorders among adolescents are actually neurodevelopmental disorders as well;
  2. Pediatricians should include alcohol and other substance use in the medical and social history taken at prenatal and health supervision visits, they wrote.
  3. We all have our own vulnerabilities for depression, based on our life experiences, health conditions, substance use, and genetic predisposition.
  4. Substance use disorders, defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, exist when at least two to three symptoms from a list of 11 are present.
  5. If you look at the groups of problems that tend to go with A.D.H.D & conduct disorders, antisocial behaviors, substance use, he said, only one of these is easily treatable.

Other meanings of SU