01:830:364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sport Utility Vehicle, Drinking Buddies, Pain Management
22 Feb 2017
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Many stimuli present when drugs are consumed become drug cues. The alcohol glassware is seen immediately before the rewarding effects of alcohol. When the alcohol glassware is not seen, the rewarding effects of alcohol are not experienced. Conditioned emotional states and physiological reactions serve to enhance the likelihood of drug taking. Sign tracking models the physical action of drug taking itself. The narrow drinking repertoire is like a drug taking ritual. A ritual is a ceremonial and religious like act of worship that serves to prepare the user to receive the blessing. Ritual: sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place and performed according to a set sequence. Drug taking is follows a narrow and set sequence of actions: Loss of control of drug taking occurs rapidly even when relatively low doses of the drug taken. Ritual drug users suffer recurring relapses de to triggered drug taking.
