HLTH 237 Lecture 1: Week1.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 237
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Drug: anything taken into the body for the purpose of altering one"s physical/psychological state. Includes medication that can be prescribed, herbs, items that can be consumed as food, or drugs that are considered illicit. All drugs have the capacity to be rewarding. 4 dimensions of addiction: biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual. Siegel"s patterns of drug use: experimental, social-recreational, circumstantial/situational, intensified, compulsive. Most organisms behave in a direction of restoring bodily functions to a normal state. The brains of all mammals are organized to oppose or suppress many types of emotional arousals or hedonic processes, whether they have been generated by positive or negative reinforcers. Addiction: condition whereby life"s possibilities become telescoped, reduced to a self-limiting fixation on one manner of coping and of self-mastery. It is a loss of control in which choices is overcome by need. Both the onset of the pleasurable effect and the amelioration of the withdrawal effect create a reward for.