Substances commonly associated with anxiety include marijuana, amphetamines and caffeine, which may provoke symptoms acutely while intoxicated or during withdrawal (as with alcohol or sedatives). To meet the criteria for substance-induced anxiety disorder, patients must have prominent anxiety, compulsions, obsessions or panic attacks which are causing significant distress or impairment in work, social or personal functioning; and history, physical exam and/or laboratory findings substantiate either that:

Again, the diagnosis is not valid if symptoms occur solely during a delirium.

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