PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Menopause, Bupropion, Bipolar Disorder
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Health compromising behaviors: behaviors practiced by people that undermine or harm their current or future health. Dependent on a substance if repeatedly self-administer it, resulting in tolerance, withdrawal, compulsive behavior. Physical dependence: state that occurs when body adjusts to substance and incorporates the use of it into normal function of body"s tissues. Often involves tolerance: body increasingly adapts to use of substance, requiring increased doses to achieve same effect. Craving: strong desire to engage in a behavior or consume a substance. Addiction: occurs when a person becomes physically or psychologically dependent on a substance following use over time. Example: thinking you need a glass of wine or you cant sleep, thinking you need a smoke to do work. Withdrawal: unpleasant symptoms experienced when stop talking substance on which one has become dependent. Anxiety, irritability, intense cravings, nausea, headaches, shaking, hallucinations. . 8 billion health care resources, law enforcement, loss of productivity at work/home. Smoking accounted for most of this cost (43%)
