notic, or anxiolytic use disorder is comorbid, the ICD-10-CM code is F13.129,  and if a mod-
erate or severe sedative, hypnotic, or anxio lytic use disorder is comorbid, the ICD-10-CM
code is F13.229.  If there is no comorbid sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic use disorder, then
the ICD-10-CM code is F13.929.
Note:  For information on Developm ent and Course; Risk and Prognostic Factors; Culture-
Related Diagnostic Issues; Diagnostic Marker s; Functional Consequences of Sedative,
Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Intoxication; and Co morbidity, see the corre sponding sections in
sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic use disorder.
Diagnostic Features
The essential feature of sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic intoxication is the presence of clini-
cally significant maladaptive behavioral or ps ychological changes (e.g ., inappropriate sexual
or aggressive behavior, mood lability, impair ed judgment, impaired social or occupational
functioning) that develo p during, or shortly after, use of a sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic
(Criteria A and B). As with other brain depressants, such as alcohol, these behaviors may be ac-
companied by slurred speech, incoordination (at le vels that can interfere with driving abilities
and with performing usual activities to the poin t of causing falls or automobile accidents), an
unsteady gait, nystagmus, impairment in cogn ition (e.g., attentional or memory problems),