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substance-related disorders for psych

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Substance   any natural or synthesized product that has psychoactive effects (changes perceptions, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors)  
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Psychoactive effects   changes perceptions, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors  
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Drug addicts   peole who have problems as a result of taking drugs  
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Substance-related disorder   inability to use a substance in moderation and/or the intentional use of a substance to change one’s thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors, leading to impairment in work, academic, personal, or social endeavors  
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Substance intoxication   experience of significant maladaptive behavioral and psychological symptoms due to the effect of a substance on the central nervous system  
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Substance withdrawal   experience of clinically significant distress in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning due to the cessation or reduction of substance use  
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Substance abuse   diagnosis given when recurrent substance use leads to significant harmful consequences  
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Substance dependence   diagnosis given when substance use leads to physiological dependence or significant impairment or distress  
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DSM-IV-TR criteria for diagnosing substance abuse   repeated problems as result of use. 1+ during a 12-mo period leading to sig impairment/distress: 1. failure to fulfill obligations 2. repeated use when physically hazardous to 3. repeated legal probs 4. cont'd use despite repeated soc/legal probs  
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Alcohol abuse   using alcohol in dangerous situations, fail to meet important obligations at work/home bc of alcohol use  
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Alcohol dependence   typical have all problems of alcohol abuser + physiological tolerance to ETOH, spend much time intoxicated or withdrawing, organize life around drinking, continue to drink despite having significan problems that result from drinking  
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Binge drinking   consuming 5+ drinks within a couple of hours of each other  
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Delirium tremens (DTs)   sx that result during severe alcohol withdrawal, including hallucinations, delusions, agitation, and disorientation  
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Alcohol-induced persisting amnesic disorder   a permanent cognitive disorder caused by damage to the CNS d/t prolonged ETOH abuse, consisting of Wernicke’s encephalopathy and Korsakoff’s psychosis  
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Wernicke’s encephalopathy   alcohol-induced permanent cognitive disorder involving mental disorientation, confusion, and possibly coma  
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Korsakoff’s psychosis   alcohol-induced permanent cognitive disorder involving deficiencies in one’s ability to recall both recent and distant events  
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Alcohol-induced dementia   loss of intellectual abilites d/t prolonged alcohol abuse. Includes memory, abstract thinking, judgement, and problem solving. Often accompanied by changes in personality.  
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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)   syndrome that occurs when a mother abuses alcohol during pregnancy, causing the baby to have lowered IQ, increased risk for mental retardation, distractibility, and difficulties with learning from experience  
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Barbiturates and benzodiazepines   drugs that reduce anxiety and insomnia by suppressing the CNS  
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Inhalants   volatime substances that produce chemical vapors which can be inhaled and which depress the CNS  
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Cocaine   a white powder extracted from the coca plant and one of the most highly addictive substances known  
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Amphetamines   stimulant drugs that can produce symptoms of euphoria, self-confidence, alertness, agitation, paranoia, perceptual illusions, and depression  
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Nicotine   alkaloid found in tobacco; operates on both the CNS and PNS resulting in the release DA, NE, ST, and the endogenous opioids  
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Caffeine   stimulates the CNS increasing levels of DA, NE, ST, causes metabolism, body temp, and BP to increase. Sources include coffee, tea, soda, OTC analgesics and cold remedies, weight-loss drugs, and chocolate.  
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Opioids   substances, incl morphine and heroin, that produce euphoria followed by a tranquil state; severe intoication can lead to unconsciousness, coma, and seizures; can cause withdrawal sx of emotional distress, severe nausea, sweating, diarrhea, and fever  
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Hallucinogens   substances, incl LSD, MDMA, and peyote, that produce perceptual illusions and distortions  
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Phenylcyclidine (PCP) fx at low doses   produces euphoria, slowed reaction times, and involuntary movements  
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Phenylcyclidine (PCP) fx at intermediate doses   disorganized thinking, feelings of unreality, and hostility  
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Phenylcyclidine (PCP) fx at high doses   amnesia, analgesia, respiratory problems and changes in body temp  
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Other names for PCP   angel dust, PeaCePill, Hog, Tranq  
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Cannabis   the most widely used illicit substance in the world, it is a substance that causes feelings of well-being, perceptual distortions, and paranoid thinking  
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Disease model of addiction   views alcoholism and other drug addictions as incurable physical diseases  
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Harm-reduction model of treatment   approach to to treating substance use disorders. Views ETOH as normative behavior and focuses education on the immediate risks of the excessive use of alcohol and on the payoffs of moderation  
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Antagonist drugs   block or change the fx of the addictive drug, reducing desire for drug  
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Naltrexone and naloxone   opioid antagonists that block the fx of opioids such as heroin  
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disulfiram (Antabuse)   produces aversive physical reaction to alcohol to encourage abstinence  
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methadone   opioid that is less potent and longer-lasting than heroin; taken by heroin users to decrease their cravings and help cope with negative withdrawal symptoms  
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methadone maintenance programs   treatments for heroin abusers that provide doses of methadone to replace heroin use and that seek eventually to wean addicted people from methadone itself  
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aversive classical conditioning   pairing of alcohol w/ a substance that will interact w/ it to cause n/v in order to make alcohol itself a conditioned stimulus to be avoided  
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covert sensitization therapy   use of imagery to create associations btwn thoughts of ETOH use and thoughts of highly unpleasant consequences  
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cue exposure and response prevention   therapy to reduce relapse among alcoholics by tempting them w/ stimuli that induce cravings to drink while preventing them from actually drinking >>> allowing them to habituate to the cravings and reduce temptation  
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abstinence violation effect   when attempting to abstain from ETOH use and ingests ETOH then endures conflict and guilt by making an internal attribution to explain why he/she drank, thereby making him/her more likely to continue drinking in order to cope w/ the self-blame and guilt  
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