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What are psychoactive drugs?
these are drugs altering people experiance and consiousnes
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What are addictive behaviour ?
These are behaviours that have gotten out of control.
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What are four characteristics of drug addiction?
- compulsive desire for a drug
- need to increase the dosage
- harm to the individual
- harm to the society
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What is drug habituation?
Routine of use of drug with out level of cumpultion, it has psychological but not physical effect. lesser version of addiction.
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What are characteristic of addictive behaviour?
- Reinforcement ( reinforcing some aspect of behaviour)
- compulsion/craving (compelling need)
- loss of control (can not block impulse to do it)
- esclation ( more of particular substance is required)
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What are stages of development of drug addiction?
- Starts to bring pleasure and relieve pain
- Developes when person becomes depende
- Tolorance develope
- Eventually becomes central focus
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What is a defenition of a drug?
It is a chemical that affect structure or function of the body and the brain.
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What is the defenition of the addiciton?
It is psychological and physical dependence
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What are some reasons for addiction?
- personality
- life style
- heredity
- environment
- nature of substance
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What are some examples of addictive behaviour?
- gambling ( 20 times suicide rate)
- compulsive exersice
- work addiciton
- sex
- shopping
- internet
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What are sings of substance dependence?
- Developing Tolorance
- Experiancing withdrawl
- consuming larger amounts
- persistant desire to cut down
- spending time to get the substance
- giving up daily important activities
- keep using substance despite problems
- spending large time obtaining it
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Who uses drugs?
- all income
- all ethnic groups
- all ages
- young people
- male
- troubled adolescent
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What are some reasons that people use drug?
- experiment
- escape
- solution
- magnified by residance
- allure of exiting and illigal
- curious , vulnurable
- need to appear
- immitating adults
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What are some risk factors for drug dependence?
- The physical risk:
- genetic factors
- prenatal exposure
- chronic pain
- psychological risk:
- difficulty controlling impulses
- strong need for excitment
- failing or rejection
- hostility
- aggression
- anxiety
- mental illness
- Social factors
- growing up in family with drug use
- other risk
- intoxication
- side effect ( paranoya, depression, heart attack)
- Unknown drug constituent
- risk associated with injection
- legal consequances
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How do drugs affect the body?
- Changes of brain chemistry
- drug factors ( pharmacological property, dose response, time action, drug use, method of use)
- user factors( body mass, general health, genetic factors, cocurrent use of other chemicals, pregnancy, placebo)
- social factor ( physical, social environment)
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Psychoactive drugs:
- Opioid (Narcatics, natural or synthetic)
- opium, morphine, heroine,methadone,hydrocodone,oxycodone
- relieve pain, cause drawsiness, induce, euphoria ( exaggerated feeling of well being)
- deppressant ( reduces nerve and muscular activity)
- seddation to death, alcohol and birbiturates
- xanax, valium, roofies, liquid extacy
- reduce anxiety, and cause mood change impare muscular coordination, drawsiness, sleep.
- Stimulants ( increase nervous system activity, increase blood pressure, constric vein, increase heart rate)
- cocaine ( coca shrubs can be snorted or injected, baking soda/ water to make it into crack, effects are intense/short)
- Amphetamines ( synthetic) benzedrine, dexdrine, methedrine, small doses makes people more alert
- Marijuana ( Most wildly used illigal drug)
- Impairs driving performance
- long term effect can cause respiratory damage
- Hallusinogens: Alter user perception , thoughts and feelings. LSD adn mesclie
- Inhalants
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