PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Homeostasis, Group Psychotherapy, Nucleus Accumbens
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Laws limit the availability of drugs deemed to have a significant risk of abuse. Controlled substances led to classification system for ranking drugs by abuse potential and proven medical use. Us drug enforcement administration (dea: 5 schedules to categorize drugs of abuse, schedule v: relatively low abuse potential and legit medical purposes, the lower the schedule #, the greater potential for abuse. Ii controlled substances have high abuse potential, but legit medical uses according to dea. I has high potential for abuse and no legit medical uses. Other countries use similar drug schedules/take different approaches: classification levels (3, class a: most harm and carry the stiffest penalties for possession and drug dealing, class c: less harm and lightest penalties. Criticisms: appropriateness of drug scheduling, methods used to schedule drugs. Schedule v can convert to i when they enter liver (metabolically) Addiction: (inability to stop taking a drug)
