PSYC 2490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Buprenorphine, Insomnia, Antibody

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2490
• Professor: Janine M.Montgomery

Document Summary

Motivational enhancement therapy involves combination of cbt and helping clients generate solutions for alcohol and drug use disorders o self-help residential homes: Separation of people from previous social contacts (relationships helped maintain drug use disorder) Comprehensive environment, drugs are not available, support is offered. Charismatic role models formerly dependent on drugs, meet life"s challenges without drugs. Direct confrontation in group therapy, accept responsibility for problems, take charge of life. Synthetic narcotics are cross-dependent with heroin = by acting on the same cns receptors, they become a substitute for the original dependency. Side effects: insomnia, constipation, excessive sweating, diminished sexual functioning. Stigma associated with going to methadone clinics o opiate antagonists = drugs that prevent the use from experiencing the heroin high. Gradually weaned from heroin, receiving increasing doses of naltrexone. Molecules occupy receptors to which opiates usually bind, without stimulating them.