Psychology 2020A/B Midterm: Lecture 2-5 Midterm III.docx
9 Jun 2014
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Steroids continued, stimulants : november 18th / 2013. In addition to physical side affects from steroid use, one well nknown psychiatric complication and that"s roid rage. Tendncy of people to use steroidswho use them to have aggressive outbursts, very atypical of individuals. Domestic abuses subsequent investiogations involve maybe professional athletes using steroids to build up msucel mass . to trainthen they became aggressive attacking spouse, etc. Read it out uncontrolled outburst of aggression : self administration. Well demonstrated that the anabolic are not self adminstered = not reinforcing therefore. Not overly surprising reason why use for humans = muscle mass. They don"t produce reinfoprcement in same sense that cocaine does for instancein release of dopamineso therefore they will not self adminster. In terms of physical dependence sometimes that"s over inflatted in terms of importance. We now know according to dsm v = tolerance and withdraw are not necessary to get diagnosis of substance use disorder.
