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Addiction:
Treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, environment, and individual life experiences.
Withdrawal:
Occurs when a user discontinues drug administration and may include several symptoms of pain and dysphoria, including vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, headache, depression, irritability, anxiety, stomach cramps
Tolerance:
The need to increase the dosage of a drug to produce the same effect, the user becomes increasingly insensitive to the drug’s effects.
Alcohol-Induced Blackouts
Typically associated with consuming excessive amounts of alcohol that can lead to impaired memory of events that transpired while intoxicated.
Brownouts (Grayouts):
most common type, fragmentary blackout, characterized by spotty memories for events
Synergistic Effect:
With respect to drug effect, when a combination of two or more drugs are taken, the effect will be multiplicative, rather than simply additive.
Drug effects may be determined by
Pharmacological properties, Age, gender, race, weight, set, setting, Etc.
Set:
The effects of psychedelic drugs are dependent first and foremost upon set – personality, preparation, expectation, and intention of the person having the experience
Setting;
The effects of psychedelic drugs are dependent first and foremost upon setting – the physical, social, and cultural environment in which the experience takes place.
A Standard Drink Size: Beer, Malt liquor, Table Wine, Shot of distilled
12fl oz beer
8-9fl oz of malt liquor
5fl oz table wine
1.5fl oz shot of distilled spirits (vodka whiskey rum ect.)
Impulsivity:
The person seeks pleasure without checking negative consequences and the behavior is more ego-syntonic and voluntary in nature
Compulsion:
is characterized by ingrained inflexibility, and the compulsive behavior is more ego- dystonic, involuntary, and stress-relieving in nature
Habit:
These conditionings lead to the formation of habit; the initially voluntary behavior now becomes a habit which compels the person to continue the use or the act even in the absence of pleasure and reward
Social Determinants of Health
The conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks
Risks to Moral Model?
Addiction counselors may carry internalized biases that reflect moral model attitudes and should work to increase their awareness so that they do not influence their work with clients
Biological Theory:
Certain biological traits (inherited or acquired) may increase the likelihood of eventual drug abuse or addiction, particularly in the presence of other external influences.
Biological traits
Inherited
Genetic factor
Genetic effects on behavior occur because they affect an individual’s susceptibility to adverse environments
Biological traits
Acquired (Neuroadaptation)
Frequent and chronic use
Brain Disease Model: (A brain Disease Model of Addiction)
that drugs of abuse act directly on brain mechanisms responsible for reward and punishment. Addiction changes brain circuits.
Under the Brain Disease Model what brain circuit changes due to addiction?
Reward/saliency (Tolerance)
Motivation/Drive (withdrawal
Memory/Learning (blackout)
Inhibitory/Control (cavings/Urge)
Other Factors under Biological Theory
Gender, Race, Age
Social Learning Theory (Bandura)
We learn by:
Observing others
Modeling or imitation of significant others (indirect learning)
The formation of conditioned responses (e.g., positive or negative reinforcement, punishment) (Direct Learning)
Psychological Theories?