Drugs and Addiction
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Terms and Phrases
Drug relapse Physical tolerance psychological tolerance up and down regulation conditioned compensatory response withdrawl negative theory of addiction positive theory of addiction incentive sensitization theory of addiction mesotelencephalic dopamine system intracranial self-stimulation ventral tegmental area nucleus accumends drug craving CREB protein Delta FosB protein
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You should know the following:
1. Why a heroin addicts tend to overdose in unfamiliar enviroments.
2. How prolonged heroin use causes down regulation.
3. The difference between the positive and negative theory of drug addiction and the problems with each theory.
4. Describe the Incentive sensitization theory of drug addiction and how associative learning is involved.
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