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Chunk #34 — Overarching Issues — Could Biomarkers Be Utilized in Making Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses?

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DSM-5 criteria for substance use disorders: recommendations and rationale.
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Many measures of drugs and associated metabolites in blood, urine, sweat, saliva, hair, and breath have well-established sensitivity and specificity characteristics. However, these only indicate whether a substance was taken within a limited recent time window and thus cannot be used to diagnose substance use disorders.