PSYC 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Smoking Cessation, Diazepam, Alcohol Advertising

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 328
• Professor: Agnes Baerbel Knaeuper

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Lo1 what are the characteristics of health-compromising behaviors? health-compromising behaviors behaviors practiced by people that undermine or harm their current or future health. Symptoms of withdrawal include: anxiety, nausea irritability intense cravings for the substance, headaches, shaking, hallucination. The costs of substance abuse in canada are substantial: smoking 43, alcohol 37% With harm reduction, use of substances is not judged as good/bad and abstinence strategies are only viewed as one of many possible strategies. Needle exchange programs are an example of community-based harm-reduction strategies. Recognizing that many users don"t want to stop, these programs provide sterile needles and education in order to reduce the chance of spreading hiv, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Harm reduction programs are: community based, effective in reducing harmful behaviors such as needle sharing implemented in large cities. There are 4 main classes of addictive illicit drugs: opiates (like heroin, cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine-type simulants (ats like ecstasy)