PSYC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Chronic Toxicity, Lung Cancer
15 Dec 2016
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Chapter 2 drug use as a social problem. Drugs in the workplace and lost productivity. Behavioural: personality and lifestyle changes, effects on relationships with friends and family. Physiological: heart disease, lung cancer, cirrhosis, other health effects. A system for collecting data on drug-related deaths and emergency room visits at some. Dawn collects data on improper use of legal prescription and over-the-counter drugs as well as illicit drugs. Alcohol is reported only in combination with other drugs. Drug-alcohol and drug-drug combinations are very common. What it tells us about how dangerous a drug is: simply gives us total deaths/er visits. What is does not tell us about how dangerous a drug is: consider relative danger vs. total impact of the drug (cannabis, number of users vs. number of reported problems. Information related to drug incidence is collected by cihi, a federally charted institution that provides information for health services and research initiatives.
