PSYC 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Addictive Personality, Nicotine, Harm Reduction
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Direct costs- easy to measure, directly related to crime. Indirect costs: public safety, employment, family, violence, domestic abuse: much greater impact. Stimulants: stimulate cns, produces adrenaline rush followed by crash. Fda drug schedules: high potential for abuse, no medical use (lsd, weed, high potential for abuse but has medical use (morphine, cocaine) Less potential for abuse, current medical use (xanax) Low abuse, medical use, lead to dependence (phenobarbital) Lower abuse, medical abuse, small concentrations, lead to dependence (cough medicine w/ codeine) Drug misuse: use in greater amounts, other purposes not prescribed or intended. Drug abuse: use/amount causing social, psychological, physical, or occupational problems. Addiction: loss of control over drug use, continued despite harm (behavior) Drug problem : whether we perceive it as a problem. Reinforcement (psychological): feeling like you can"t go without it: delivery of reward following an action that increases the behavior will repeat, negative: take away something to reinforce.
