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Drug Addiction
[Addictive behavior, substance abuse, or chemical dependency] is a complex brain disease characterized by compulsive and uncontrollable drug cravings even at the peril of serious negative consequences.
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Drug
Any substance that alters the user's ability to function.
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Drug Abuse
Intentional and inappropriate in a drug resulting in physical, emotional, financial, intellectual, social, spiritual, or occupational consequences of the abuse.
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THC
- Not completely eliminated 30 days or more after an initial dose
- Short term effects: Tachycardia, dryness of the mouth, reddened eyes, stronger appetite, decrease in coordination, and tracking, etc.
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Excessive drinking
More than half of car accident deaths.
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Synergistic action
Lost all real effect of medication.
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Alcohol on Campus
28% of all college dropouts.
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Treatment of Addictions
- Professional guidance and support
- Psychotherapy
- Medical care
- Behavior modification
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Tobacco Use
Largest preventable cause of death.
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Smoking and Cancer
Most common carcinogenic exposure is in the workplace.
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Smokeless Tobacco
- Average starting age: 10 years old
- Fourfold increase in oral cancer.
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Trends
Tobacco is the 6th largest cash crop in the U.S.
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Why People Smoke
- Peer pressure
- Appear 'grown up'
- Rebellion against aythority
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Most important reasons to quit smoking
- health
- example
- aesthetics
- mastery
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Smoking Cessation
- Only 20% of smokers why try to quit, quit the 1st time
- Presistence is key
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Life After Cigarettes
Risk for heart disease approaches that of a lifetime non-smoker in 10 years, and 15 years for cancer.
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Chlamydia
Most prevalent in US.
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AIDS
- End stage of the HIV infection.
- 2 most common fatal conditions:
- 1. Pneumocyststis carinii pneumonia - Parasitic infection of the lungs.
- 2. Kaposi's sarcoma - Skin cancer.
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HIV
Can go 10 years without signs or symptoms.
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Which STD's are Treatable
- Chlamydia - antibiotics
- Gonorrhea - penicillin and other antibiotics
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) - Antibiotics, abstinence, and bed rest
- Human Papillomavirus(HPV)+Genital Warts(Herpes) - untreatable
- HSV 1 & HSV 2(both cause oral and genital herpes) - untreatable
- Syphilis - untreatable
- HIV&AIDS - untreatable
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Chronological vs. Physciological Age
- Physiological age - Functional capacity to perform work at any stage in your life. (Systemic PA allows people to maintain a higher level of fuctional capacity and do not experience the declines typical in later years.)
- Chronological age - actual age
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Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
- 'unconventional','nonallopathic','integrative'
- Conventional western medicine: Allopathic meds (Based on scientifically proven methods)
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5 Categories of CAM
- Alternative medical systems
- Mind/body interventions
- Biologically based therapies
- Manipulations and boady-based methods
- Energy therapies
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