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Substance-Related Disorders

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While some users show increased sexual functioning due to substance use, the chronic use of legal and illicit drugs increases the rates of sexual dysfunctions. Especially in connection with substance use, it remains difficult to disentangle cultural, social, psychological, and biological etiological factors in sexual dysfunctions. This chapter, however, reviews the existing empirical data on substance-related disorders and sexual dysfunctions and intervention programs. Moreover, it will discuss if there are any substances with potentially enhancing effects on sexual functioning. The first part of the chapter consists of a general introduction and classification of substance-related disorders and sexual dysfunctions in DSM-5 and ICD-11. The second part presents empirical findings on various substances and sexual functioning in greater details. The last part presents possibilities of prevention and intervention of sexual dysfunctions in association with substance and two case reports. Furthermore, the reader will find take-home messages at the end of this chapter.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy, Division of Clinical Psychology and Sexual Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

    Jannis Engel & Tillmann H. C. Krüger

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    Michal Lew-Starowicz

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    Tillmann H. C. Krüger

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Engel, J., Krüger, T.H.C. (2021). Substance-Related Disorders. In: Lew-Starowicz, M., Giraldi, A., Krüger, T. (eds) Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52298-8_14

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