PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Drug Tolerance, Analgesic, Learning
6 Nov 2016
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In the case study, it was suggested that john had began to build up a drug tolerance to morphine. Drug tolerance decreased effectiveness of a drug such as morphine over the course of repeated administration. Research suggests that learning plays an important role in the development and maintenance of drug maintenance of drug tolerance. The environmental context of drug administration is a vital factor of the development of drug tolerance and the mechanisms of drug overdose, and central to the conditioning theory of being purported. Every episode of drug administration acts as a conditioning trial. The stimulation provided by the drug acts as an unconditional stimulus, and the counteraction acts as. In order to maintain homeostasis, physiological systems attempt to counteract drug effects the unconditional response. The environment of drug administration becomes associated with the process of administration and counteraction.
