PSY3032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Passive Smoking, Cannabis Sativa, Effects Of Cannabis
11 Oct 2018
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Dsm-5 criteria for substance use disorder (pertaining symptoms within a 1 year period) Undertake a problematic pattern of use that impairs functioning. Repeated use in situations where it is physically dangerous. Continued to use despite problems caused by the substance. Substance taken for a longer time or in a greater amount than intended. Efforts to reduce or control use do not work. Much time spent obtaining, using or recovering from the substance. Social, hobbies, or work activities given up or reduced. Craving to use the substance is strong. Indicated by larger doses of substance being needed to produce desired effect. Indicated by the effects of the drug becoming markedly less if the usual amount is taken. Withdrawal: negative physical and psychological effects that develop when a person stops taking the substance or reduces the amount, muscle pains, twitching, sweats, vomiting, diarrheal, insomnia. Drug and alcohol use disorders are the most stigmatized of disorders.
