Drugs And Physiology Reflection

The class, Drugs and Physiology is my first online class I have ever taken and it has many positive and negative reviews for me. Although I find many of the assignments for this course to be rewarding and fun, the problem with group assignments and important papers deadlines may hurt my opinion on this class. During the first day, James Tapia, you painted a clear picture of what the class would be about and what you expected from us in return. Being an independent student and learning at home ended up being a more difficult task than I had expected. The process of email students with alerts of every time there is a new lesson and assignment up was very misleading. Majority of the time I would check online and my emails to see what assignment …show more content…
The first lesson about learning the five historical themes that introduced us to learn about drug classes and their general effects on the humans body. This was the perfect lesson to begin with since it showed me how little I knew about drugs and how unique each drug can effect different people. From knowing the effects we went straight into the routes that drugs take to achieve their desire affects. The choice of which way the drug user chooses to absorbed the drug affects the speed it takes for the drug to reach the brain. After a few lessons of specific drug classes and getting into more detail about each of the upper, downers, and all arounders the next lesson that I liked was about tolerance and withdrawal. During this critical thinking activity we were assigned a video to watch and answer questions about. As I said before in my previous emails I appreciate being given the permission to choose our videos and I chose the funniest video. The video clearly wants to make alcohol seem as impressive to men as shoes are to women. Although I found it to be very amusing I didn’t appreciate the way they used the stereotype of women loving shoes so …show more content…
Pleasure unwoven was one of the first extra credit assignments that you gave us and we had the opportunity to turn in for 40 points. I will try to be as honest as I can about this video because it did change my mind about how I look at addiction as a disease. When I started the video I already hated it, the man’s voice was the first thing that annoyed me. Then came the visuals of the video, I felt like I was going through a therapy session. His introduction was short and quick enough that I got to the second video and then I paused the video so that I can go rant to my brother. He began talking about pointing a gun to a man’s head and that it was his choice to stop his addiction. I laughed. This was ridiculous and I almost didn’t want to do the assignment, but after getting that through my system I listen to what he had to say and I began to see where he was coming from. I appreciated his point of view and in returned it did change the way I think about