PS268 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Biology Of Depression, Personality Disorder, Impulsivity
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Laissez-faire: hands-off approach to government interference in the workings of the market. If the seller wanted to sell, and buyer wanted to buy, let them do it: factors that precipated creation of drug laws have varied from country to country, three concerns have led to creation of laws. Toxicity: toxic poisonous or dangerous, all drugs can be dangerous depending on the dosage. Alcohol in high doses can suppress respiration: behavioural toxicity. Toxicity resulting from behavioural effects of a drug. Cause people to distort their behaviours: physiological toxicity. Damages to the body: categories of toxicity. Impacts hospital ers, increased health care costs, lost productivity and social system suffers for it. Acute sharp/intense, sudden onset: effects from one single use of the drug, behavioural intoxication from drug use that impairs behaviour and increases danger to individual, physiological overdose of drug causing bodily functions to impair.
