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What is the major DSM 5 change to substance disorders?
no longer a distinction between dependence and abuse. (since both are commonly seen together)
What is the difference between substance use disorders and substance induced disorders?
Substance induced disorders are more temporary and reversible, while substance use disorders are more chronic
What is a psychoactive substance?
Substance injected, inhaled, etc into body that produces changes in thinking, feeling, behaving and physiological symptoms.
True or false: Caffeine is only a substance use disorder.
FALSE. Caffeine is only a substance INDUCED disorder
What is the DSM 5 criteria for a substance use disorder?
Behavioural, physiological symptoms
from pathological persistent substance use:
- impaired control
-risky use
- social impairment
- pharmalogical
What are the 4 criteria for impaired control?
1. need more and more
2. try to stop but can't
3. use tons of time to get substance
4. crave, esp. when available
What the 3 criteria for social impairment
5. failure to fulfill obligation
6. use anyway despite obvious impairment
7. give up important activities

* think of video about dad
What are 2 criteria for risky use?
8. use substance in harmful circumstances
9. know harm, but still use
What are tolerance & withdrawal?
Tolerance: need more for same effect
Withdrawal: physiological symptoms if don't have substance
What are the criteria for substance induced disorders?
Intoxication - impairment
Withdrawal symptoms
not better explained by other substance abuse or mental disorders
True or false: there is no genetic link for substance disorders
False, high genetic link esp for males
What do depressants do in general?
Suppress CNS activity,
What is the most common depressant?
Alcohol
How does alcohol affect the body?
affects many parts of body - goes in bloodstream
affects lots of neurotransmitters (GABA (no more bad feelings), glutamata (memory loss), serotonin (cravings) and dopamine (reward system)
bad withdrawal symptoms, can go into withdrawal delirum
What do sedative/hypnotic/anxiolytic substances do? Examples?
lessen anxiety, make you sleepy
Barbs used for sleeping pills until realized very addictive
Benzodiazepens are anxiety meds
What is severe effect of sedative/hypnotic/anxiolytics drugs?
Can stop breathing if relax respiratory muscles too much
What are stimulants?
Arouse body, most common substance used
What do amphetamines do?
stimulant
high and crash
low appetite for dieting
noepineprine/dopamine
What does cocaine do?
keeps dopamine around
Coca plant
similar to amphetamines
What does nicotine do?
withdrawal symptoms - depressed, irritable, anxious, restless, weight gain
can reinforce alcohol abuse when paired with it
lungs & blood stream
True or false: Caffeine is the most common substance induced order.
True.
What do opiods do?
Relieve pain, induce sleep
The most common opiod is heroin.
True.
What is the agonist for heroin?
Methadone
What do hallucinogens do?
Altered perception of reality, relaxed stupor
What is "Reverse tolerance"?
Marijuana
more they use, more pleasure they get
What are inhalants?
through air
markers, nail polish, cleaners, nitrous oxide
What are steroids?
testosterone
build up body size/performance
What are designer drugs?
specialized drugs
high dependence/tolerance
popular
What is alcohol dehydrogenaze?
Breaks down alcohol
Asians don't have this, get red faces!
What does dopamine do?
Increases feelings of pleasure
What does GABA do?
Stop negative feelings
What is positive reinforcement?
Substance gives pleasurable experience, even without social
What is negative reinforcement?
Substance stops negative feelings
What is the opponent process cycle?
Even though can have adverse affects when "crash", strengthened by promise of future "good" - good/bad/good cycle
True or false: If you expect more from a drug, you will receive more positive effects.
True, this is the expectancy effect
What is the conditioning effect?
Pair one stimulus with idea that substance coming soon after (e.g. nervous? heart rate? drink?)
Compare moral to disease model?
Substance abuse is moral weakness (shame) or a disease that one does not control
True or false: If a child has a parent who abused a substance, they are more likely to abuse it to.
True
What is motivational interviewing?
To prepare client for change
look at short-long term reasons to change or to stay the same
What does agonist substitution do?
Mimics drug but less harmful version (methadone/heroin)
What does antagonist substitution do?
Stop pleasurable effects of drugs (naltroxene/alcohol)
What does averse treatment do?
Antabuse - makes people vomit when drink
pairs very negative event with substance
True or false: Inpatient care is the best care and worth the high price.
False. similar results to outpatient care
True or false: Individual counselling is best for addictions.
False. Group therapy is more encouraging
T or F: AA takes a moral model.
False, AA takes a disease model and hands over control to God
What is contingency treatment?
If person meets goal, rewarded
What is InSite?
gives out clean needles and tools to do drugs safely
referrals to other social/health services
reduced needle sharing
less fatal overdoeses nearby
doesn't increase drug use
What is gambling disorder?
4 or more symptoms for 12 months
- more money
- irritable if can't
- can't stop
- preoccupied with
- relies on other people
- gamble if bad day
- lies
- jeopardized relationships
True or false: Men get addicted faster to gambling.
False. Women do
True or false: It is common to have a substance abuse disorder with gambling disorder.
True. it is also common to have a mood disorder with gambling disorder
What is "controlled drinking"?
Teaching person how to limit drinking to reasonable amount
not complete abstinence
True or false: Arsonists are pyromaniacs.
False. Arsonists have other motives for setting fires (money or revenge)
What is kleptomania?
Anxiety and tension until steal and then tension relieved. Compulsive need to steal