INDS 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: Substance Abuse, Pejorative, Dsm-5

• School: McGill University
• Department: Interndisciplinary Studies
• Course: INDS 212
• Professor: Fraser Moore

Document Summary

Dsm-5 definitions: withdrawal: a substance specific syndrome that occurs after stopping or reducing the amount of the drug or substance that has been used regularly over a prolonged period. This syndrome is characterized by physiological signs and symptoms in addition to psychological changes such as disturbances in thinking, feeling, and behaviour. Intoxication: a reversible syndrome caused by specific substance that affects 1+ of the following mental functions (we weren"t given a list) 1: craving or a strong desire to use a specific substance, severity: depends on the number of symptoms, mild: 2-3; moderate: 4-5; severe: 6 or more, specifiers: In early remission: no criteria for more than 3 months but less than 12. In sustained remission: no criteria for more than 12 months. Etiology: bio-psycho-social model: bio: neurobiology of addiction, genetics: many candidate genes under study, aldehyde dehydrogenases, gabra2, ankk1,