PSYCH257 Study Guide - Final Guide: Soltyrei, Tumescence, Premarital Sex
17 Apr 2017
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Substance-related and addictive disorders associated with abuse of drugs and other substances that people take to alter the way they think, feel, and behave: substance chemical compounds that are ingested in order to alter mood/behaviour. Psychoactive substances alter mood, behaviour, or both. Includes more commonplace legal drugs such as alcohol, nicotine found in tobacco, and caffeine in coffee/tea: account for more health problems and mortality than all illegal drugs combined. Use ingestion of psychoactive substances in moderate amounts that don"t significantly interfere with social, educational, or occupational functioning. Intoxication physiological reaction to ingested substances (ex. drunkenness, getting high); depends on which drug is taken, how much is ingested, and person"s individual biological reaction: impaired judgement, mood changes, lowered motor ability (ex. problems walking/talking) Tolerance requires increasingly more of the drug to experience the same effect. Withdrawal will respond physically in a negative way when the substance is no longer ingested. Cocaine withdrawal includes anxiety, lack of motivation, boredom.
