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Potpourri
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Behavior that is based on the pathological need for a substance.
What is Addictive Behavior?
100
25 to 50% of these patients also have substance-abuse disorders.
What is PTSD?
100
Failures in parental guidance is this type of casual factor.
What is Psychosocial Casual Factor?
100
The need for increased amounts of a substance to achieve desired effects.
What is Tolerance?
100
The chief active ingredient in tobacco.
What is Nicotine?
200
This drug increases the level of dopamine in the brain.
What is Methamphetamine?
200
The percentage of heavy drinkers who develop cirrhosis of the liver.
What is 15-30%?
200
Besides genetics, this is another biological casual factor of alcohol abuse and dependence.
What are Learning Factors?
200
It refers to physical symptoms such as sweating, tremors, and tension that accompany abstinence from the drug
What is Withdrawal?
200
A hallucinogen and stimulant drug known as the "rave" drug.
What is Ecstasy?
300
Diverse group of drugs that cause alteration in perception, thought, or mood.
What is Hallucinogens?
300
Type of abuse that is associated with over 40% of the deaths suffered in automobile accidents each year.
What is Alcohol Abuse?
300
The sociocultural factors of alcohol abuse and dependence.
What are religion, geographic location, and social influences?
300
Dependence on alcohol that seriously interferes with life adjustment
What is Alcoholism?
300
According to reports, this is amount of hours toxicity usually lasts.
What is 3-4 hours?
400
The physical effects of chronic alcohol abuse.
What are malnutrition, stomach pains, and cirrhosis of liver?
400
This the percentage of of pathological gamblers worldwide.
What is 1-2%?
400
A phenomenon referring to certain ethic groups, especially Asians and Native Americans, with abnormal physiological reactions to alcohol.
What is Alcohol Flush Reaction?
400
An involuntary recurrence of perceptual distortions or hallucinations weeks or months after individual has taken the drug.
What is Flashback?
400
Drugs that were once widely used to induce sleep.
What are Barbiturates?
500
Inhibition of this neurotransmitter in the brain impairs the organism's ability to learn and affects the higher brain centers.
What is Glutamate?
500
Lifetime prevalence for alcohol abuse in the United States.
What is 13.4%?
500
Adults tend to show greater drinking habits in these type of relationships.
What are less intimate and supportive relationships?
500
The center of psychoactive drug activation in the brain.
What is Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine pathway or MCLP?
500
A drug that is derived from the resin exuded by the canabis plant and made into gummy powder.
What is Hashish?