SOCIOL 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Striatum, Problem Gambling, Addiction
Document Summary
Addiction is both a personal trouble and public issue. Opium was the first kind of addiction studied and documented. The quality or state of being addicted. Compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (like heroin, nicotine, and alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal. Persistent compulsive use of a substance known but the user to be harmful. Of relating to, caused by, or suggestive of psychological compulsion or obsession. An overwhelming urge to do something or having something that it overcomes our thought process. The study of addiction is sprawling and vast. How circuits in the brain respond or light up or become activated and how human activities influence this. Drug addiction has been conceptualized as a disorder that involves elements of both impulsivity and compulsivity that yield a composite addiction cycle composed of three stages: binge/intoxication", Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters.
