Addiction: Defining addiction

Question 1

PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE definition

Answer 1

• a result of long-term use
• physiological need for drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued
• normal day to day functioning can become reliant on the substance

Question 2

PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE definition

Answer 2

• the condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug in order to satisfy intense mental and emotional craving for the drug
• individual feels/thinks that they cannot cope with work and social life without a social

Question 2

TOLERANCE

Answer 2

• diminishing effect with same dose of drug or behaviour
• requiring larger and larger doses
• neuroadaption= changes at synapses occur, down regulation so receptors are less sensitive

Question 3

WITHDRAWAL

Answer 3

-unpleasant physiological or psychologial effects following discontinued use of a drug
-shakes, tremours, vomiting
- often leads to relapse

acute= within hours usually stops in weeks
post acute= brain slowy reorganises, could takes over months