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Reliance of someone or something else for support. In psychiatry, used to refer to needs for protection, security, food, and so forth, as in the child’s dependence on a caregiver (see dependent personality disorder). It also applies to the substance-abusing person’s need to continue use of the psychoactive substance; see dependence, substance.
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