DANCE 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychoactive Drug, Reward System, Tegmentum

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Dance
• Course: DANCE 3
• Professor: Kelli Sharp

Document Summary

Drug = any chemical, other than food, intended to affect the. Illicit drug use changes your brain structure or function of the body. Psychoactive drug = a drug that can alter a person"s state of mind or consciousness. Intoxication = the state of being mentally affected by a chemical (literally, a state of being poisoned) Addiction = a chronic brain disease that causes a person to compulsively seek out drugs (or activity), despite the harm they cause. Addictive behaviors typically share some general characteristics: reinforcement, compulsion or craving, loss of control, escalation, negative consequences (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Acute use = like the drug or not. If you do repeat and use the drug again and again, you can become an addicted user; you will get less and less of the effect because your body is changing. Many drugs cause withdrawal (your body has adapted to being on that drug; when you are not, you start to feel sick)