Addiction is characterized by behaviors that include one or more of the following Impaired control over drug use, compulsive use, continued use despite harm, and craving Principles of addiction medicine, third edition. History of 10 detox’s, no treatment with medications No other drug, alcohol or tobacco use Hiv and hepatitis c negative
Name and classify commonly abused drugs Describe tendency to develop psychological and physical dependency for the more commonly abused drugs Describe the schedules of controlled substances act Describe lab tests that forensic chemists normally rely upon to comprise a routine drug id scheme. Classical conditioning classical or pavlovian conditioning conditioned stimulus (cs) unconditioned stimulus (us) automatically elicits a response (reflex) unconditioned response (ur) food, water, sex, pain, etc Mood disorder characterized by mood swings between manic and depressive states
Normal children will exhibit manic or hypomanic symptoms Opioids are natural or synthetic substances that act on the brain’s opiate receptors Opioids dull pain and relieve anxiety that comes from thinking about pain People abuse opioids because they provide a feeling of euphoria (a “rush”).
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