PSY260H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Incentive Salience, Adderall
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From use and abuse to addiction: reinforcement and dopamine, withdrawal, emotional learning. Addiction: a strong habit or compulsion that is maintained despite known harmful consequences. Some popular illicit drugs that are considered addictive today: heroin, cocaine, marijuana, amphetamine, etc: development. Addiction can be defined in many different ways, but we can say for (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) that it"s (cid:374)ot the sa(cid:373)e as drug a(cid:271)use. Drug abuse is more interested in legality, and it can be defined through what is legal and what is not, which is not based upon science. You can abuse a drug and not be addicted. Drug a(cid:271)use does(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essaril(cid:455) (cid:373)eet the threshold for addi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) We see more deaths by overdose than deaths by car accidents, and of those were heroin and opiate-derivatives (e. g. , fentanyl) Marijuana is considered an addictive substance today (not 40 years ago), due to selective breeding of plants, we see increased thc content (20- fold)
