PSYO 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Oxycodone, Barbiturate, Morphine
14 Jan 2016
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Chapter 11 textbook notes (p. 392 429) Impulse-control disorders: involve the inability to resist acting on a drive or temptation: includes those who cannot resist aggressive impulses or the impulse to steal, set fires, gamble, or pull out their hair. Psychoactive substances: alter mood or behaviour: to become intoxicated or high, to abuse these substances, and to become dependent on or addicted to them. Substance intoxication: our physiological reaction to ingested substances. Substance dependence: the person is physiologically dependent on the: involves tolerance and withdrawl. Tolerance: the person requires increasingly more of the drug to experience. Withdrawl: the individual responds negatively when the substance is no drug(s). the same effect. longer ingested. Substances have been grouped into five general categories: depressants: result in behavioural sedation and can induce relaxation. Include alcohol, and the sedative, hyponotic, and anxiolytic drugs in the families of barbiturates and benzodiazepines: stimulants: cause us to be more active and alert and can elevate mood.
