HLTHAGE 1CC3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 189 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Industry and pharmacies could not keep up with demand. A drug for ladies: emotional problems like woman"s frigidity, bride"s uncertainty, and wife"s in delity, this is how the drug was actually marketed. Psychopharmacology as big business: new industry driven by private companies, not public university, on back of ssri boom, antidepressants and anti-psychotics in and billion dollars annually. Monday, november 28, 2016: prevalence estimates maximize notion epidemic. Creation of new disorders: in 1997-1998 sad mentioned 50 times in us press. By 1999, over one billion mentions: americas third largest mental health problem imagine being allergic to people , celebrity endorsed, healy- pharma does not only market drugs, but markets illness itself. Lecture 1- intro to addiction: asam: addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. It is considered a brain disease because drugs change brain structure.
