PSY 605 : Chapter 3 Drug Specific Information psychology of addictions
28 Nov 2014
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Abuse, addiction are traps that have significant consequences on the soul: there will always be a new drug that affects the mind and body in a different way, most drugs have different addiction potentials. Drugs in our society: drug revolution of the 60s and 70s revolted against. Moral and sexual values societal values in general: symbolized the conflict in vietnam and the stress of the draft, in the late 1980s to early 1990s, designer drugs came on the scene. Synergism: this is an important factor, as the use of more than one drug is not additive but instead multiplied. 1 drug taken + another drug taken does not equal two units of potency. Instead it may have a synergistic effect of being 5 times more powerful an action. Antagonism: when the combined effects of 2 drugs is less than the sum of the two drugs acting seperately.
