APK 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Decision-Making, Quality Time, Libido
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Negative aspects of sport and exercise: drug abuse in sport and exercise, exercise dependence, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, burnout in sport and exercise. Negative aspects of sport and exercise drug abuse: alcohol, anabolic-androgenic steroids, stimulants, depressants, diuretics, hallucinogens, beta-blockers, creatine, dietary supplements. Drug abuse: addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences. It is considered a brain disease because drugs change the brain; they change its structure and how it works. These brain changes can be long lasting and can lead to many harmful, often self-destructive, behaviors: 4 major categories of symptoms associated with substance use disorder. 1: positive relationship between etoh use and (-) consequences decreased during. Drug abuse diseases: gi disease (e. g. , ulcers, liver damage, cardiovascular disease, cancers, brain damage, accidents, murders, and suicides, lung, mouth, larynx, & esophagus cancers, emphysema, heart disease & irregularities, mouth cancer, gum disease.