HLSC 1810U Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phlegm, Endorphins, Mucus
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Health promotion healthy active living 7. 2 drugs and habits. Individual response: set and setting: response to drugs is influenced by , ones internal environment (set, total external environment (setting) Aspect of addiction include: excessive use of a substance or behaviour, persistent desire to reduce, control use, frequent incapacitation due to use, substance, behaviour: to avoid withdrawal symptoms. Tolerance: larger dose, to obtain desired effects (the more you consume, the more you need to feel good) Withdrawal: drug causes an effect the body creates by itself: anxiety, anger, trembling, may also cause delirium. When we star taking drug, body stops producing feel-good neurotransmitters because drug is already doing that for them. Nurturing through avoidance: avoiding additional problem by using drugs. Behaviours or drugs no longer pleasurable: still preferable to unhappy realities. Compulsive obsessive/excessive relationship with activity or drug. Loss of control inability to predict whether your behaviours are reliable. Negative consequences physical, family/friends, academically, legal problems.
