01:830:364- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 74 pages long!)
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Pre-existing emotional psychiatric conditions associated with drug addiction. For the recovering addict, drug abstinence is associated with: We all know what it is but, maybe not. The diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm) use of the term addiction has been revised repeatedly. Is now called, by dsm v, substance use disorder . Substance use disorder is persistent and repeated drug use despite negative consequences. Internet, gaming, cell phone, facebook, porn, gambling, shopping, sex, food, sports. The term addiction is broadly applied to a broad range of habitual behaviors, called behavioral addictions. Behavioral addictions share many of the characteristics of drug addiction, but . The neurobiological entry points are largely unknown. You like it, so you do it again. Escalation of drug taking is often accompanied by changes in the users emotional reactions related to the drug. If the user finds the drug"s effects to be pleasurable or rewarding, then the user may decide to repeat the use of the drug.
