PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Dyskinesia, Morphine, Extreme Measures
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John belushi comedian and drug user (cocaine/heroin mix = snowballs). He ended up overdosing on a dose that was actually far smaller than his normal dose. Context was different place, people, time. The brain is used to getting the drug at a certain routine so it prepares itself. It will stop producing the neurotransmitters that the drugs would boost: when belushi overdosed, the brain had not prepped itself for the drug intake. In hospitals, morphine is given to people that are terminal to help with pain. Eventually, patients may reach the level called ld50 a stage where the person has a 50% chance of dying of an overdose on the morphine. These therapies assume that some (all?) disorders are ultimately caused by abnormal neural or other physiological functions. And yes, for some cases, they are the best hope to help with treatment of certain mental disorders. Schizophrenia the voices" will not be talked" out or follow cognitive therapy.
