health Flashcards
to choose not to do something.
abstain
what people think others are doing.
percieved norms
a negative association attached to a behavior or condition.
stigma
an increased likelihood of developing a particular disease based on a person’s genetic makeup.
predisposition
how drugs are grouped according to their effects.
classification
when the body relies on the effect produced by a drug.
dependence
functioning poorly or incompetently.
impaired
showing the loss of all hope.
despairing
an irresistible urge, especially one that is against one’s conscious wishes.
compulsive
feeling of intense happiness and well-being.
euphoria
the process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed.
conditioning
combining 2 or more drugs to produce intensified effects.
synergism
symptoms that occur when users who are dependent on a drug stop taking it.
withdrawal
process of thinking and acquiring knowledge. (Short-term memory, processing speed, attention)
cognition
a return to bad behavior that someone had stopped doing.
relapse
