Chapter 1- Addiction

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Addiction

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Compulsion to use alcohol or other drugs despite negative consequences of use.

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Psychoactive Drugs

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Alters the normal functioning of the central nervous system.

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Chemical Dependency

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Describes addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs and to differentiate this type of addiction with non-chemical addictions.

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Dependence

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A recurrent or ongoing need to use alcohol or other drugs

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Psychological Dependence

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The need to use a drug to feel better about ones self and to think, feel, and function normally.

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Physical Dependence

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The tissues if the body require the presence of alcohol and/or other drugs to function normally.

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Protracted Withdrawl

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The flashback or recurrence of addiction withdrawal symptoms that trigger heavy craving for a drug long after detoxification.

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AOD

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Alcohol and Other Drugs

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Psychotropic Drugs

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Drugs that are used to treat mental illness.

• Zoloft
• Wellbutrin
• Zyprexa

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Tolerance

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Requirement for increasing quantities or dosages of a drug to achieve the desired effect.

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Cross-tolerance

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Accompanying tolerance to other drugs from the same pharmacological group.

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Behavioral tolerance

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The adjustments the brain makes in behavior to cope with the effects of the drug.

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Reverse Tolerance

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Occurs when smaller quantities of the drug produce the same effects as did previously larger doses. (Due to widespread physical damage).

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Illicit drugs

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Illegal drugs

• heroin
• marijuana
• cocaine
• hallucinogens
• club drugs (ecstasy)

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Licit Drugs

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Legal drugs.

• alcohol
• nicotine
• caffeine

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Instrumental Use

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Person is taking drug with a specific, socially approved goal in mind.

• stay awake longer
• recover from illness
• sleep better

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Recreational Use

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The person is tKing the drug only to get “high” or achieve some pleasurable effect.

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Drug Misuse

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Cases in which a prescription or over the counter drug is used inappropriately.

• increase/decrease dose beyond prescription
• combining with other drugs
• sharing with family

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Toxicity

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Physical or psychological harm that a drug may cause a user.

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Acute Toxicity

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There is a possibility that the short term effect of a drug will trigger a toxic reaction. (Occurs immediately or soon after the drug is ingested.)

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Chronic Toxicity

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The physical or psychological harm that a drug may cause a user over a period of time.

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Dose

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The quantity of a drug that is taken into the body.

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Effective Dose(ED)

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The minimal dose of a particular drug necessary to produce the intended drug effect in a given percentage of the population.

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Lethal Dose(LD)

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The minimal dose of a particular drug capable of causing death in a given percentage of the population.

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Therapeutic Index(TI)

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A measure of a drugs relative safety for use.

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Routes of administration from the most rapid to the slowest

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• Inhaling
• Injecting
• Snorting and Mucosal Exposure
• Oral Ingestion
• Contact and Transdermal Absorption

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Inhaling

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Allows the drug to enter the lungs, heart, and then the brain.

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Injecting

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Puts the drug directly into a vein, into muscles, or under the skin.

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Snorting and Mucosal Exposure

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Drugs which are snorted are absorbed through mucous membranes in the nasal passages.

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Oral Ingestion

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Drugs that pass into the stomach then the small intestine where they are absorbed by capillaries in intestinal walls.

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Contact and Transdermal Absorption

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Exposure to drugs like LSD into the system through the eye or nicotine through patches next to skin.

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Defense Mechanisms

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• denial
• regression
• projection
• reaction formation
• repression
• displacement

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Defense Mechanisms(2)

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• Intellectualization
• rationalization
• sublimation
• compensation

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Denial

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Refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if painful event, thought, or feeling did not exist.

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Regression

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The reversion to an earlier stage of development in the face of unacceptable thoughts or impulses.

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Projection

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The misattribution of a persons undesired thoughts, feelings, or impulses onto another person who does not have these thoughts, feelings, or impulses.

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Reaction formulation

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The converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts, feelings, or impulses into their opposites.
-fear is displayed as happy and calm.

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Repression

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The unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses.

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Displacement

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Taking out your feelings, thoughts, and impulses meant for one person, on another person.

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Intellectualization

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Instead of dealing with painful associated emotions, and individual distances oneself from the impulse, event, or behavior.

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Rationalization

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To offer a different explanation for ones perceptions or behaviors.

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Sublimation

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The channeling of unacceptable impulses, thoughts, and emotions into more acceptable ones.

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Compensation

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A process of psychologically counterbalancing perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strength in other areas.

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The Moral Model of Addiction

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Addiction is a consequence of personal choice.

-Individuals are viewed as deciding to use AOD in a problematic manner and being capable of making other choices.