PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Alcohol By Volume, Disulfiram, Ideo
6 Jan 2015
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Substance-related disorders have been around longer than recorded history. Opium derivatives were widely used in asian cultures, greece, and rome, to relieve pain or induce sleep, to enhance pleasure, etc. Natives in the andes chewed the leaf of the coca plant to relieve fatigue and increase endurance. Flower of the peyote cactus was used by tribes in south and central america during religious ceremonies. Alcohol use resulted in many problems for aboriginal people. There was also an increase in the use of coca leaf in the andes since it enabled the workers to work without eating. Involves the simultaneous misuse or dependence upon two or more substances. Due to the availability of other substances, the fact it is more widely known to young people, their socioeconomic status, and drugs being more widely available to young people. Combing drugs is physically dangerous since the effects are often synergistic.
