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PSYC 330 - Lecture 1 notes / review
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- PSYC 330
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- State University Of New York - Binghamton
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Lecture 1Key for notes -
Yellow = definition
Pink = personal question
Blue = key point
Illustrative cases
Parents both law enforcement
Overdose
Laced with fentanyl
What drives the individual to do something?
Why I vape I dunno man ,
What drives the attraction to drugs, drugs as a broad term hormones, lsd, what drives the craving ?
Risky behavior
Legal oversight
Age of initiation
False sense of safety
Influence if current penal system
Involvement of cues
Power of nicotine
Legal vs illegal drugs
We believe legal drugs are less dangerous and less addictive.
Example oxycodone , most spread widely used addictive compounds but are legal.
Just because legal doesn’t mean safe.
We don’t count nicotine, alcohol and caffeine in the war on drugs
-Alcohol-
250 billion dollar cost on society a year
Teenagers.
-Key definitions-
Pharmacology = the scientific study of drugs and drug action ( scientific = research)
Psychopharmacology= scientific study of the effects of drugs on behavior ( main focus of this
class)
-what is a drug?-
A chemical entity or mixture
Not required for the maintenance of health -------------> what about hormone's if you consider
mental state health?
That alters biological function
Psychoactive drugs = effect mood , cognition and or behavior
What about natural substances ? Can they be classified as drugs ? Dietary supplements?
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