Psychology 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Half-Life, Barbiturate, Morphine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2020A/B
• Professor: Riley Hinson

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Addiction is not used as a professional diagnostic term, partly due to stigmatization. Lecture 3 introduction iii (jan 18) the term substance use disorder is used. Substance use disorders (suds) is a diagnostic category in the diagnostic and statistical. Manual (dsm) of the american psychiatric association which may be described as ranging from mild to moderate to severe. The term substance is replaced with the drug, i. e. alcohol use disorder or cannabis use disorder. [aside] the categorization of substance use disorder has changed as the dsm has changed. The most recent is the dsm v. there was a significant change between dsm iv and dsm v. in dsm. Iv, addiction was conceptualized through two different types of disorders: 1) substance abuse and 2) substance dependence. An important component of the dsm iv was that for a diagnosis of substance dependence, you had to show tolerance and withdrawal. However, for a diagnosis of substance abuse, you did not.