CCJ 4934 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Drug Action, Drug Tolerance, Toxicology
29 Mar 2016
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The pharmacological perspective: essentialisticality drugs are substances that one attributes with material or physical properties and or effects. Points to real world quality that resides within or is in intrinsic to substances that referred to by drugs. If it possesses that internal/intrinsic quality it is a drug. Quality can be from investigation: constructuionist perspective. Drugs defined subjectively what they are thought to be. How public, law, enforcement, media, regard them. Defining quality is from external or imposed by society. How they are seen, judged, legislated against: scientist. Look at drugs as physical substances with material real-work effects: neophytes. Drug action versus drug effect: drug action. Specific and takes place at a molecular level. The drug chemical interacts with the body"s neurochemical system. Result from more than a given dose of a drug. Product of chemistry interacting with the organism, personal characteristics and environment. Biophysical reaction, takes place in the body: interactions.
