Characteristics Of Addiction

Question 1

How does the NHS define addiction?

Answer 1

Not having control over doing, taking or using something to the point it can be harmful

Question 2

How does the BPS define addiction?

Answer 2

Addiction is defined as a psychological and for physiological and for physiological depend on a particular substance or event

Question 3

What are the two types of addiction?

Answer 3

Behavioural
Substance

Question 4

What is behavioral addiction?

Answer 4

Shopping
Pornography
Gambling

Question 5

What is substance addiction?

Answer 5

Drugs
Alcohol
Prescription drugs

Question 6

What is the DSM-5?

Answer 6

Diagnostic and statistic manual of mental illness
Uptakes new reaserch about different disorders
Doctors and Psychiatrics look for lists of symptoms when diagnosing mental illness
Version 5 published in 2013

Question 7

Issues with DMS-5?

Answer 7

Issue is that it has a limited ability to diagnose behaviour addiction
-Aside from gambling

Question 8

What did Griffith’s do?

Answer 8

Wrote the journal of substance use
Identified six criteria that need to diagnose addiction

Question 9

What are Griffiths 6 criteria?

Answer 9

Salience
Mood Modification
Tolerance
Withdrawal symptoms
Conflict
Relapse

Question 10

Griffiths- Salience?

Answer 10

Activity most important thing in individuals life, dominating thoughts and feelings
Example- it wasn’t gambling, I was spending the rest of my time working out scheme to obtain to feed habit’

Question 11

Griffiths- Mood modification?

Answer 11

When engaging with activity, the mood changed
‘High’ or escape numbness. Self medicated
-Smoker smoking first thing in morning for a buzz, but in evening for relaxation

Question 12

Griffiths- Tolerance?

Answer 12

Building up a tolerance to drug to experience the same effect
E.g. Heroin and alcholol
Gambling can cause a decrease in heart rate at an abnormal speed compared to non gamblers. Need to redstart gambling for same level of arousal

Question 13

Griffiths- withdrawal symptoms?

Answer 13

If behaviour stops, withdrawal starts physically (insomnia, nausea and headache)
Mentally (irritable and moody)
E.g Drug and chemical addication
Gambling

Question 14

Griffiths- Conflict?

Answer 14

Conflict between addicts + family’s and friends by compromise jobs or relationship or relationships or themselves (intrapsychic)
E.g. addict know they want to step but struggle to do so

Question 15

Griffiths- relapse?

Answer 15

Addicts have a strong tendency to resturn to behaviour after years of disengagement and it seeing successful
E.g. smokers restarting after a long period of quitting