PSYC62H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nicotine, Median Lethal Dose, Pharmacodynamics
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Final will be partly cumulative: cumulative part is a few multiple choice questions. The have an enormous impact on society whether it is for medical purposes. Rx drugs such as for mood disorders or anxiety disorders. Psychopharmacology the study of drugs and the biological impact they have on our body. Looking at people who use the drugs and effects it has on the person and society. Looking at the drugs effect on animals and see how they can be used on humans. Food also has a psychological and physiological effect. Normally would not associate food with drugs but we should understand that it would have physiological and psychological effects as well. Slide 9 a subjective benefit high or to feel drunk) Cigarettes are drugs because nicotine has a psychoactive property to it. So these are the 2 ways of looking and distinguishing drugs. Overall when people use drugs for recreational purposes have problems with.
