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Drugs and Addiction

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DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.
DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.

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

 

 

 

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. 

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.