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Chapter 11 (Barlow) Flashcards

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Associated with the abuse of drugs and other substances people take to alter the way they think, feel, and behave.

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substance-related and addictive disorders

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Represent a number of related problems that involve the inability to resist acting on a drive or temptation.

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Impulse-control disorders

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Refers to chemical compounds that are ingested to alter mood or behavior.

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Substance

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Substances that alter mood, behavior, or both.

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Psychoactive substances

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Ingestion of psychoactive substances in moderate amounts that does not significantly interfere with social, educational, or occupational functioning.

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Substance use

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Physiological reaction to ingested substances—drunkenness or getting high

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Substance intoxication

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Substance use disorder is usually described as?

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Addiction

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Use of increasingly greater amounts of the drug to experience the same effect (tolerance), and a negative physical response when the substance is no longer ingested (withdrawal)

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Physiological dependence

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The repeated use of a drug, a desperate need to ingest more of the substance (stealing money to buy drugs, standing outside in the cold to smoke), and the likelihood that use will resume after a period of abstinence are
behaviors that define the extent of substance use disorders.

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Drug-seeking behaviors

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Substances result in behavioral sedation and can induce relaxation.

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Depressants

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Substances cause us to be more active and
alert and can elevate mood

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Stimulant

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Major effect of these substances is to produce
analgesia temporarily (reduce pain) and euphoria

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Opiates

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Substances alter sensory perception
and can produce delusions, paranoia, and hallucinations.

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Hallucinogens

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Individuals who are unable to resist the urge to gamble which, in turn, results in negative personal consequences

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Gambling disorder

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Measures levels of intoxication.

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Breathalyzer test

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Condition that can produce frightening hallucinations and body tremors.

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Withdrawal delirium (delirium tremens)

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Results in confusion, loss of muscle coordination, and unintelligible speech

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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

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Combination of problems that can occur in a child whose mother drank while she was pregnant.

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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

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Metabolize alcohol with the help of an enzyme called

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Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)

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Drinking occasionally with few serious consequences

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Prealcoholic stage

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Drinking heavily but with few outward signs of a problem

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Prodromal stage

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Loss of control, with occasional binges

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Crucial stage

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Primary daily activities involve getting and drinking alcohol

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Chronic stage

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Prescribed to help people sleep and replaced such drugs as alcohol and opium.

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Barbiturates

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Have been used since the 1960s, primarily to reduce anxiety.

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Benzodiazepines

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At low doses, it can induce feelings of elation and vigor and can reduce fatigue

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Amphetamines

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Individuals experiencing exaggerated fears that he would be caught or that someone would steal his cocaine

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Cocaine-induced paranoia

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Site in the brain that seems to be involved in the experience of pleasure

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Pleasure pathway

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Psychoactive substance that produces patterns of dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal comparable to those of the other drugs we have discussed so far

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Tobacco

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Refers to the family of substances that
includes natural opiates, synthetic variations, and the comparable substances that occur naturally in the brain

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Opioids

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Regular users experience more pleasure from the drug after repeated use.

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Reverse tolerance

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Marijuana contains more than 80 varieties of this chemicals; believed to alter mood
and behavior

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Cannabinoids

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Referred to as “acid,” is the most common hallucinogenic drug.

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LSD

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Constricted the flow of blood to the arms or legs and eventually resulted in gangrene and the loss of limbs.

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Ergotism

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Users sometimes administer the drug
on a schedule of several weeks or months followed by a break from its use

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Cycling

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Users combine several types of steroids

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Stacking

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Act as the “brain police”

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GABA neurons

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Holds that an increase in positive feelings will be followed shortly by an increase in
negative feelings.

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Opponent-process theory

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Observation about the influence of how we
think about drug use

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Expectancy effect

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Powerful urges that can interfere with efforts to remain off these drugs

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Cravings

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Drug use is seen as a failure of self-control in
the face of temptation; this is a psychosocial perspective.

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Moral weakness model of chemical dependence

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Assumes that drug use disorders are caused by an underlying physiological cause; this is a biological perspective.

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Disease model of physiological dependence

43
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Adapt to new cultures

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Acculturation

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Male dominance in Latin cultures

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Machismo

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Female Latin role of motherly nurturance and identifying with the Virgin Mary

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Marianismo

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“Loss of face” among Asians, that can lead to shame for not living up to cultural expectations

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Tiu lien

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Continued use of certain substances changes
the way our brains work

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Neuroplasticity

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Involves providing the person with a safe
drug that has a chemical makeup similar to the addictive drug

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Agonist substitution

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Drug provided to smokers in the form
of gum, patch, inhaler, or nasal spray, which lack the carcinogens included in cigarette smoke

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Nicotine

50
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Requires less effort and provides a steadier nicotine replacement

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Nicotine patch

51
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Block or counteract the effects of psychoactive drugs, and a variety of drugs
that seem to cancel out the effects of opiates have been used with people dependent on a variety of substances

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Antagonist drugs

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Treatment model looks at the learned aspects
of dependence and sees relapse as a failure of cognitive and behavioral coping skills

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Relapse prevention

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People have episodes in which they act on aggressive impulses that result in serious
assaults or destruction of property

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Intermittent Explosive Disorder

54
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Recurrent failure to resist urges to steal things that are not needed for personal use
or their monetary value

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Kleptomania

55
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An impulse-control disorder that involves having an irresistible urge to set fires.

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Pyromania

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