HLTH 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cannabinoid, Fetus, Motivational Interviewing
25 Apr 2017
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Continued involvement with a substance or activity despite its ongoing negative consequence. Compulsion: characterized by obsession with, or excessive preoccupation with, the behavior and an overwhelming need to perform it. Loss of control: the inability to predict reliably whether any isolated occurrence of the behavior will be healthy or damaging. Negative consequences: physical damage, legal trouble, financial problems, academic failure, or family dissolution, which do not occur with healthy involvement in any behavior. Denial: the inability to perceive that the behavior is self destructive. Addiction involves elements of habit- a repeated behavior in which the repetition may be unconscious. Addiction affects family and friends: codependence: a condition in which a person is controlled by an addicts addictive behavior. A person will often but their needs aside to care for the addict: enablers: people who knowingly or unknowingly protect addicts from the natural consequences of their behavior. Addictive behaviors: drug chemicals are not the only source of addiction.
