ADDICTION

Question 1

What is addiction? 2M

Answer 1

addiction is a discorded which an individual consimes a substance eg nicotine or engages in a behaviour eg gambleing that is plesurable bit eventually becomes compulsive and harmful

Question 2

What is psychological dependence?

Answer 2

mental and emptial complution to continue using the substance or cant cope in life without the drug.
absense of the drug or behavior causes a individual to become anxious or irratible

Question 3

What is physical dependence?

Answer 3

state of the body tat occurs when withdrawl syndrome is produce from stopping the substance or behavior

Question 4

what is withdrawl syndrome?

Answer 4

colletion of psychological and physcial symptoms that an individual will face when they no longer take a substange or engange in a behavior eg low mood, shakeing and nausia

Question 5

what factors affect the severity of withdrawl syndrome?

Answer 5

1. the substance used or type of behavior
2. the amount of substance consumed at once
3. drug use or behavior patten - how often do u take

Question 6

what is tolarane? 2-4 marks

Answer 6

torlarance is where you have a substance for a continued amount of time and due to repeted exposure the response to the substane is reduced

Question 7

what are the 2 examples of tolerance? A/A*

Answer 7

1- cellular tolarance - whn the brian neurns adapt due to higher levels of a substance
2- Behavior tolerance- when the person’s behavior becomes less affected by the substance so they can do daily activitys while under the influance of the substance