PHAR 100 Lecture 16: PHAR100 W5L1 Physical and Psychic Dependence

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Course: PHAR 100
• Professor: Bill Racz

Document Summary

Introduction: drug addiction and dependence is a serious social and financial problem for many individuals and for society, can cause illness and death, may lead to crime to financially support use, occurs across all social groups and ages. Canadian centre on substance abuse: the costs of substance abuse in canada 2002 . Survey released in 2006: economic impact of substance abuse in canada is . 8 billion annually. Alcohol specifically: economic impact of alcohol is about billion. . 1 billion to lost productivity due to illness and premature death. Canadians drink more than 50% above the global average. Alcohol is the third leading cause of the global burden of disease and injury. A state of periodic or chronic intoxication produced by repeated consumption of a drug (natural or synthetic). Characteristics: desire to take the drug and obtain it by any means, tendency to increase the dose, addiction to and physical dependence on the effects of the drug, compulsive and harmful behaviour.