HSS 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Video Lottery Terminal, Depressant, Post-Nasal Drip

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Excessively uses a substance or engages in a behaviour. Expresses a persistent desire to reduce, control use. Chapter 9: recognizing use, misuse, abuse, and addiction to drugs and behaviours. Drug use: taking a drug in a way that is intended. Drug misuse: using a drug in a way it was not intended. Drug abuse: the excessive use of a drug. Main effect: the intended reaction(s) to a drug; the reason for which a drug is taken. Side effect: unintended reaction(s) to a drug. Set: your total internal environment, or mindset at the time you take a drug or engage in a behaviour. Addiction: persistent compulsive dependence on a behaviour or substance. Neurotransmitters exert their influence at receptor sites in nerve cells. Tolerance: phenomenon in which a progressively larger does of a drug or more intense involvement in a particular behaviour is needed to produce the desire euphoric effects.