PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Sigmund Freud, Dextroamphetamine, Xerostomia
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Presence of withdrawal and tolerance, out of control, daily binge, fails to meet the activities daily living, depressed and anxious, physically weak, lack of calories and vitamins, mentally slow, restless(poor sleep) Polydrug abuse: tobacco 80-85%, synergistic effect dangerous (anxiolytic), downer, death. Comorbidity: when another disorder presents, the likelihood of relapse is greater. Course of the disorder: no single pattern or cause of alcohol abuse; incident rate of alcohol abuse drops dramatically by the age of 30: career, family, children, independent. Short-terms of alcohol: social ability grows, confident, laugh more, and slur speech, cognitive difficulty, and black out, fall asleep, biophysics affect. Dehydration, alcohol stimulating, the blood alcohol level rising, peek, decline feel the negative emotion: fatigue, tiredness, upset. Long-term effect of prolonged alcohol abuse: biological: cirrhosis of the liver, cognitive impairment: wernicke-korsakoff syndrome---deficiency of vitamin, severe. Memory disorder, c. emotional impairment: depression, stress anxiety. Psychological effects: amount of thc in the marijuana, size of the dose.