Drugs Flashcards
What are recreational drugs?
Substances that have psychoactive effect and effect how the brain works, which causes changes and moves awareness for feelings or behaviour and taking for enjoyment
What are examples of soft drugs?
Cannabis and sleeping pills
What are examples of hard drugs?
Cocaine and heroin
Why do people use drugs?
Belonging creativity, pressure, mental illness curiosity fun
Belonging can explain 49% of the variance of drug use
It’s environmental factors and neurobiological factors that impact on drug use
Environmental factors include friends and family where is biological factors, include things, such as dopamine in the brain, which thinks to pleasure.  we have the activation, but different genes will cause different levels of activation.
How does drugs affect the brain?
Drugs hijacked the reward system and dopamine is released in the Synaotic cleft which prolongs the feeling of pleasure.
Methamphetamines blocked dopamine removal, so it builds up in the synapse .
Eventually, higher levels of the drug are needed because of tolerance,  
What are factors predicting drug use?
- Legal policy and availability of drugs.
- Psychological factors.
- Demographic factors.
- Health
- Tourism.
- Attitudes.
- Accidental. 
What are the psychological factors specifically that can impact on drug use?
- Curiosity is self-reported major motivation for trying drugs (van der bos (2022)
2  high neuroticism and less extroversion, conscientiousness, and agreeable Ness is associated with higher levels of drugtaking (Kirov 2010) - however, a survey found no statistically significant association between the big five personality traits and potty druggies
- Risk aversion so individuals who have a subjective belief that substance use is less crispy for health on more likely to take drugs.
- impulsivity and low self-esteem have a causal relationship with substance abuse
Explain, demographic factors that implements drug use
- Males or people who identify as LGBTQ are more likely to take drugs
- Being of non-western ethnicity increases the probability of cannabis used by 4.2 times
- People of particular religions may take fewer drugs.
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How does health and other favtirs factors in particular influence drugtaking?
1. Poor physical or mental health, requires one to take drugs for instance cancer patients.
- Individuals who have lenient I like you to take drugs, more such as
- An individual who complies with parents is less likely to take drugs
- People who have children take drugs.
- Capable to take drugs and upper class individuals
What are some problems with drug studies?
-  correlated through an observable characteristics, such as IQ may have been missed out.
- By directional correlation, which means that confounding factors are not considered. Or diss! drug use, cause emotional instability, or does emotional instability lead to drug use 
How has recent research improved on drugs studies?
- More control variables, such as personality, self-control risk of version income, and IQ have been considered
- More longer to no studies.
Information information about the prevalence and intensity of taking drugs has been collected in a sample of over 1000 people and emotional stability. Strongly predicted, drug use as well as paid work.
How did twin studies relate to drug use?
Twin show that the big five personality traits have substantial heritable components explaining 40 to 60% of the variance in love
True or false, emotional stability in 2016, still predicted, drug use in 2020
True
What are the impacts of taking drugs?
Physical health
Mental health
Labour market performance
Crime
Economics
Intervention creations (rehab)
