PSYC 41364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoactive Drug, Substance Abuse, Benadryl
22 Jan 2019
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Most users of any given drug do not use it in ways that can be defined as. Drink coffee everyday, but that is not abuse of a drug. Both the __amount___ and the ___rapidity___ of drug consumption dictate drug effects. Clearly, consuming more of a substance will almost always increase the effects of that substance. Rapiditiy of consumption (how quickly you consume the drug) also has significant impact on experienced effects. Larger dose have . effects than smaller doses (obvious) Example: someone who __increase____ their bac from 0. 0 to . 12 in 1 hour is more likely to experience a blackout as compared to someone who __increase_______ their bac from 0. 0 to. 18 (higher overall bac) over the course of 6 hours. Someone could have 6 drinks in 1 hour or 6 drinks in 5 hours, same amount of alcohol but different speed of consumption. Psychoactive drug effects are powerfully influenced by the user"s _history__ and.
