PSYC 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anorectic, Liver Function Tests, Buprenorphine

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2280
• Professor: Langton

Document Summary

Substance disorders cost canadians billion a yr, kills 50,000 cdns annually. Roman catholic church declared drug abuse and drunk driving are sins. Substance: chemical compounds ingested to alter mood or behaviour. Psychoactive substances: alter mood, behaviour or both: cocaine, heroin, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine. Use: ingestion of psychoactive substances (alter mood, behaviour, or both) in moderate amounts that do not sig- nificantly interfere with social, education or occupational functioning. Intoxication: physiological reaction to ingested substances: varies across substance, amount, individual biology, experienced as impaired judgment, mood changes, lower motor ability. Abuse: defined in terms of how significantly it interferes with the user"s life: education, job, relationship with others, dangerous situations - abuse. Ways to define addiction vary: 1 - person is physiologically dependent on the drug, requires increasingly more to experience the same effect (tolerance), will respond negatively physiologically when drug is stopped (withdrawal)