Substance-Related & Addictive Disorders Flashcards
The newly added disorder to this category in DSM-5.
Gambling Disorder
It refers to the chemical compounds that are ingested to alter mood or behavior.
Substance
Substance that alter mood, behavior or both.
Psychoactive substance
The ingestion of psychoactive substances in moderate amounts does not significantly interfere social, educational or occupational functioning.
Substance use
Our physiological reaction to ingested substances.
Intoxication
How significant substance use interferes with the user’s life.
Substance abuse
The person is physiologically dependent on the drug/s, requires increasingly greater amounts of the drug to experience the same effect (tolerance) and will respond physically in a negative way when substance is no longer ingested (withdrawal).
Substance Dependence
Withdrawal from this substance has a pattern that includes anxiety, lack of motivation and boredom.
Cocaine
Withdrawal from _ includes such symptoms as nervousness, appetite change and sleep disturbance.
Cannabis
What are some examples of drug seeking behaviors?
Repeated use of drug
Desperate need to ingest more
Likelihood that use will resume after a period of abstinence
How many criteria should a person with a substance-related disorder exhibit to say that it’s mild, moderate or severe?
Mild- 2/3 out of 11
Moderate- 4/5 out of 11
Severe- 6 or more out of 11
Alcoholism and drug abuse used to be categorized as _; a forerunner of the current antisocial personality disorder because substance use was seen as a symptom of other problems.
Sociopathic personality disturbances
What disorders are highly likely to include a secondary problem of substance use?
Schizophrenia and Antisocial Personality Disorder
It primarily decreases central nervous system activity. Its principal effect is to reduce our levels of physiological arousal and help us relax.
Depressants
In what group does alcohol, sedative, hypnotic and anxiolytic drugs belong to?
Depressants
What group of substances are among the most likely to produce symptoms of physical dependence, tolerance and withdrawal?
Depressants
It is produced when certain yeasts react with sugar and water and fermentation takes place.
Alcohol
In this disorder, they generally experience a feeling of well-being, inhibitions are reduced and they become outgoing. It depressed more areas of the brain which impedes the ability to function properly, such as motor coordination, reaction time, confusion, judgments, and even vision and hearing.
Alcohol-related Disorders
What are some neuroreceptor systems that alcohol influences?
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
Glutamate system
Serotonin system
It is an inhibitory neurotransmitter, whose role is to interfere with the firing of the neuron it attaches to. It seems to act on our feelings of anxiety.
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
An excitatory neurotransmitter helping neurons fire. It is suspected to involve learning and memory, and it may be the avenue through which alcohol affects our cognitive abilities.
Glutamate system
What may be the result of the interaction of alcohol with a glutamate system?
Blackouts
Loss of memory
This neurotransmitter system affects mood, sleep and eating behavior,and is thought to be responsible for alcohol cravings.
Serotonin system
A condition that produces frightening hallucinations and body tremors during withdrawal.
Withdrawal delirium or delirium tremens