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Drug dependence often presents to clinics and hospitals by virtue of medical, surgical, and psychiatric complications. Drug dependence can also mimic a wide variety of medical conditions. Unless the clinician remains alert to the possibility of drug dependence, the patient may obtain treatment for the secondary complication while the primary problem, drug dependence, goes untreated.

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