PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Health Professional, Drug Education, Stimulant
9 Jul 2020
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Used to reduce pain through hypnotic analgesia, to reduce fear. Compare and experimental group (trained to practice tm) to a control group (not trained in tm) who practices either tm. Obtaining pleasure, joy, and euphoria; meeting social expectations; giving into peer pressure; dealing with or escaping stress, anxiety, and tension; avoiding pain; and achieving altered states of consciousness. May alter consciousness and awareness, influence how we sense and perceive: addiction. A behavioral pattern of drug abuse marked by an overwhelming compulsive desire to obtain and use the drug; even after stopping, strong tendency to relapse and begin using the drug again: tolerance. After a person uses a drug repeatedly over a period of time, the original dose no longer produces the desired effect, thus requiring increasingly larger doses to get the same effect: dependency. Refers to a change in the nervous system so that the user now needs to.
