PSYC 3560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Anabolic Steroid, Pole Dance, Psilocybin Mushroom
Document Summary
Perspectives on substance-related disorders: substance-related disorders, use and abuse or psychoactive substances, wide-ranging effects, psychophysiological altered motor control, memory loss, unconsciousness, seizures, hallucinations, extreme boredom, anxiety, restlessness, behavioral agitated, euphoric, paranoid, lying, stealing, isolation, significant impairment, costs. Levels of involvement: use- cup of coffee in morning; cig once a month; one glass of wine. Intoxication- 4 glasses of wine: abuse, dependence, dependence and addiction , tolerance, withdrawal, drug seeking behaviors . Diagnostic issues: comorbidity, axis 1, axis 2 antisocial and borderline, causality do we begin to use substances because were depress or are we depressed/anxiety because we are using substances (both) Main categories of substances: depressants, stimulants, opiates (pain killers, hallucinogens- weed, pcp, acid, shrooms, other drugs of abuse. The depressants: alcohol use disorders: clinical description, cns depressants (depresses the central nervous system) (if drinking, less likely to get in a fight; if drinking more likely to pole dance)
