HLTHAGE 2L03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Alcoholism, Social Movement, Gin Craze
9 Feb 2020
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Aurolac (chemical in air) kids caused frustration to others because they were seen as socially undesirable. Addiction as a disease ; adaption to circumstance ; addiction as an idea/ not set in stone. Orphanages did not have clean needles (but kids were getting vitamin injections) Chronic, relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences. Illness is a loose term it involves suffering less specific than a disease. Considered brain disease b/c drugs change the structure and the way the brain works. Addiction = impulsive involvement with substance or behavior. Addiction = does not imply to chemical component (about behavior) 4 c"s in explaining addiction: craving, desire transcends psychological realm, almost physical, compulsion, relieves stress. Anxiety if you resist craving and not receiving : e. g. , low level of compulsion = addiction to cell phone, consequence, negative life impacts, control, loss of control / unable to stop, contested, addiction resists any simple or all-encompassing definition.
