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Chapter 12 - Substance Abuse and Addictive Disorders Flashcards

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Substance Intoxication

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Causes temporary changes in behavior, emotion, or thought

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Substance use disorders

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patterns of maladaptive behaviors and reactions brought about by the repeated use of substances

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Tolerance

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need increasing doses of the substance to produce the desired effect

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Withdrawal

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reactions consist of unpleasant and sometimes dangerous symptoms that occur when the person suddenly stops taking or cuts back on the substance

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Binge drinking episode

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When someone consumes 5 or more drinks in one sitting

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Ethyl Alcohol

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A chemical that is quickly absorbed into the blood through the lining of the stomach and the intestines

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GABA

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Carries inhibitory messages to stop firing when it is received by a certain neuron

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What happens at a .06 BAC

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The person feels relaxed and comfortable

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What happens at a .09 BAC

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Drinker has crossed a line into intoxication

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What happens at a .55 BAC

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The drinker will most likely die

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What is the average rate of metabolism of alcohol

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25% of an ounce per hour on average, however, people “sober up” differently

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What happens when someone goes through Alcohol Withdrawal?

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Within hours their hands, tongue and eyelids begin to shake; they feel weak and nauseated, they sweat and vomit ; their heart beats rapidly; and their blood pressure rises. They become anxious, depressed unable to sleep or irritable.

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Delirium Tremens

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  • Terrifying visual hallucinations that begin within three days after they stop or reduce their drinking.
  • May also have seizures, lose consciousness, suffer a stroke or die
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Cirrhosis

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Liver becomes scarred and dysfunctional

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Korsakoff’s Syndrome

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  • A disease marked by extreme confusion, memory loss, and other neurological symptoms
  • Cannot remember the past or learn new information and may make up for their memory losses by confabulating
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Confabulating

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Reciting made-up events to fill in the gap

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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A pattern of abnormalities that can include intellectual disability disorder, hyperactivity, head and face deformities, heart defects and slow growth

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Sedative-hypnotic drugs (anxiolytic)

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produce feelings of relaxation and drowsiness.

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Barbiturates

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The most widely prescribed hypnotic drug

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Benzodiazepines

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Generally safer and less likely to lead to intoxication, tolerance effects and withdrawal reactions

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Sedative-hypnotic drug use disorder

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a pattern marked by craving for the drugs, tolerance effects and withdrawal reactions

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Opioids

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  • Taken from the sap of opium poppy
  • heroin, morphine, codeine and similar synthetic drugs
  • cause nausea, constipation and pinpoint pupils
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Opium

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Been used for thousands of years and widely in the treatment of medical disorders because of its ability to reduce both physical and emotional pain

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Morphine

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  • Named after greek god of sleep, Morpheus
  • Drug relieves pain even better than opium
  • a.k.a. “soldiers disease”
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Heroin

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  • viewed as a wonder drug and used as cough medicine

- pain reliever

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Narcotics

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Collective opioid driven drugs

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What are the ways opioids are taken?

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  • skin popping
  • mainlining
  • smoking
  • inhaling
  • snorting
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Endorphins

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Neurotransmitters that help relieve pain and reduce emotional tension

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Withdrawal of Opioids

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  • anxiety
  • restlessness
  • sweating
  • rapid breathing
  • severe twitching
  • aches
  • fever
  • vomiting
  • diarrhea
  • loss of appetite
  • high blood pressure
  • weight loss up to 15 pounds
    Symptoms peak by third day and disappear by the 8th day
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Dangers of Opioids

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  • overdose
  • respiratory center shuts down
  • paralyzing breathing
  • death
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Simulants

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  • Increase the activity of the CNS, resulting in increased blood pressure and heart rate, more alertness, and sped-up behavior and thinking
  • Cocaine, amphetamines, caffeine and nicotine
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Cocaine

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  • central active ingredient is from the coca plant

- most powerful natural stimulant

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What does cocaine do to the body?

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  • stimulates other centers of the CNS
  • a faster pulse, higher blood pressure, faster and deeper breathing and further arousal and wakefulness
  • Increases supplies of dopamine
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Cocaine Intoxication

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Poor muscle coordination, grandiosity, bad judgment, anger, aggression, compulsive behavior, anxiety and confusion

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Cocaine Induced Psychosis

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Hallucinations, delusions, or both

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What happens when cocaine subsides?

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  • “crashing”
  • dizziness, headaches, fainting
  • In high doses, the above and stupor, deep sleep and coma
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Freebasing

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a technique in which the pure cocaine basic alkaloid is chemically separated or “freed” from the processed cocaine, vaporized by heat from a flame and inhaled through a pipe

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Crack

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  • a powerful form of freebase cocaine that has been boiled down into crystalline balls
  • it is smoked with a special pipe and makes a crackling sound as it is inhaled
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What are the dangers of cocaine

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  • linked to many suicides
  • overdose is the greatest danger
  • a strong effect on the respiratory center of the brain depressing it to where it could almost stop
  • heart irregularities
  • brain seizures that bring breathing and heart beat to a stop
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Amphetamines

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are stimulant drugs that are manufactured in the laboratory

- first discovered in 1930’s to help treat asthma f

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What do Amphetamines do to the body?

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  • Increase energy and alertness
  • reduce appetite
  • produces a rush, intoxication and psychosis in high doses
  • an emotional letdown as they leave the body
  • stimulate the CNS by increasing dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin
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Methamphetamine

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  • “crank”
  • stovetop laboratories
  • 6% of people over age 11 have an addiction
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Neurotoxicity

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Damage to the nerve endings

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What happens when people stop taking meth?

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  • depression
  • fatigue
  • sleep problems
  • anxiety
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Caffeine

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  • most widely used stimulant
  • peak concentration is within an hour
  • release of dopamine, serotonin, norephinephrine
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Caffeine Intoxication

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  • restlessness
  • nervousness
  • anxiety
  • stomach disturbances
  • twitching
  • faster heart rate
  • can cause grand mal seizures and respiratory failure in doses larger than 10 grams
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Caffeine withdrawals

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Headaches, depression, anxiety and fatigue

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Hallucinogens

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Substances that cause powerful changes in sensory perception, from strengthening a person’s normal perception to inducing illusions or hallucinations

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Trips

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  • Hallucinations so out of the ordinary

- exciting or frightening depending on how the body reacts

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LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)

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most famous and most powerful hallucinogens was derived by Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman

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What does LSD do to the body?

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  • Visual perceptions
  • Psychological changes and physical symptoms
  • Causes people to have illusions in which objects seem distorted and appear to move, breathe or change shape
  • hear sounds more clearly, feel tingling or numbness in the limbs and confuse sensations of hot and cold
  • induce strong emotions from joy to depression
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Cannabis

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  • The most powerful is called Hashish

- mixture of buds, crushed leaves and flowers from the hemp plant

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THC

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  • appears to be the one most responsible for its effects
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What does cannabis do to the body?

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  • Hallucinogen
  • Depressant
  • stimulant
  • typically has feelings of joy and relaxation and may become either quiet or talkative
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Cannabis Use Disorder

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  • Social and occupational or academic lives are affected
  • Cannot go a single day without smoking
  • Become restless and irritable with flulike symptoms when they stop smoking
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Problems with Cannabis

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  • Fail to remember information
  • Memory and thinking problems
  • contribute to lung disease
  • reduces the ability to expel air from the longs more than tobacco does
  • lower sperm counts
  • anxious, suspicious or irritated if smoking in an unpleasant environment
  • causes people to panic or feel like they’re losing their minds
  • Interferes with complex sensorimotor tasks and with cognitive functioning
  • has caused many automobile accidents
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Combination of Substances

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  • When you take more than one type of drug at a time

- AKA polysubstance use

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Cross-tolerance

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can reduce the symptoms of withdrawal from one drug by taking another drug

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Synergistic Effect

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Often greater than the sum of the effects of each drug taken alone: a small dose of one drug mixed with a small dose of another can produce an enormous change in the body’s chemistry

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Socioculture Theorists of Substance abuse

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  • believe people are most likely to develop a substance use disorder when they live under stressful socioeconomic conditions
  • propose that people are more likely to develop substance use disorders if they are part of a family or social environment in which substance use is valued or accepted
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Psychodynamic View of Substance abuse

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  • believe that people with substance use disorders have powerful dependency needs that can be traced to their earlier years
  • believe that certain people respond to their early deprivations by developing a substance abuse personality that leaves them particularly prone to drug abuse
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Cognitive - Behavioral view of substance abuse

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  • operant conditioning may play a key role
  • argue that temporary reduction of tension or raising of spirits produced by a drug has a rewarding effect, thus increasing the likelihood that the user will use the drug again
  • Classical conditioning may also play a rol as it occurs when two stimuli that appear close together in time become connected in a person’s mind, so that eventually, the person responds similarly to each stimulus
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Biological Views of Substance Abuse

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Believes people are genetically predisposed to become addicted to drugs

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Genetic Linkage

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strategies and molecular biology techniques provide more direct evidence in support of a genetic explanation

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Neurotransmitters

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  • Alcohol reduces GABA
  • Opioids reduce endorphins
  • Cocaine or amphetamines lower dopamine
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Reward Circuit

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whenever a person ingests a substance, the substance eventually activates the brain’s reward circuit - key neurotransmitter is dopamine

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Incentive-Sensitization theory

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neurons in the circuit fire more readily when stimulated by the substances, contributing to future desires for them

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Reward deficiancy syndrome

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reward circuit is not readily activated by the usual events in their lives so they turn to drugs to stimulate this pleasure pathway, particularly in times of stress

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Psychodynamic Theorists treat Substance abuse by

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  • guiding clients to uncover and work through the underlying needs and conflicts that they believe have led to the substance use disorder
  • then try to help the clients change their substance-related styles of living
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Cognitive-Behavioral Theorists treat substance abuse by

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  • help clients to identify and change the behaviors and cognition that keep contributing to their patterns
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Aversion Therapy

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a widely used approach based on the behavioral principles of classical conditioning clients are repeatedly presented with an unpleasant stimulus at the very moment they are taking the drug

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Contingency management

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offers clients incentives that are contingent on the submission of drug-free urine specimens

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Relapse-prevention training

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Taught to identify high-risk situations, appreciate the range of decisions that confront the in such situations, change their dysfunctional lifestyles and learn from mistakes and lapses

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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Mindfulness-based approach to help clients become aware of their streams of thoughts as they are occurring and to accept such thoughts as mere events of the mind

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Detoxification

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systematic and medically supervised withdrawal from a drug (biological)

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Antagonist Drugs

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  • block or change the effects of the addictive drug

- disulfiriam - often given to people who are trying to stay away from alcohol. (biological)

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Drug Maintenance Therapy

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People with an addiction are given the laboratory opioid methadone as a substitute, or agonist, for heroine (biological)

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Sociocultural therapies

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  • Alcoholics Anonymous
  • residential treatment centers
  • community prevention programs
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Gambling Disorders

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  • defined less by the amount of time or money spent gambling but the addictive behavior
  • Inherited by a genetic predisposition
  • experience heightened dopamine
  • have impulsive, novelty seeking and other personality types that leave them prone to gambling disorders
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Internet use disorder

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spend all or most of their waking hours texting, tweeting, networking, gaming, internet browsing, e-mailing, blogging, visiting virtual worlds, shopping online or viewing pornography

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