Chapter 11 Substance Related Disorders

What is the nature of substance-related disorders?

—simply the ingestion of psychoactive substances on occasion

The physiological reaction to ingested substances (e.g., drunkenness, getting high) is referred to as

What does intoxication depend on?

—is difficult to define on the basis of amount of substance ingested. According to the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR, substance abuse is defined on the basis of interference with the user’s life

—is usually described as addiction; though there is considerable disagreement about how to define addiction

Requires greater and greater amounts of the drug to experience the same effect

While responding physically in a negative way when the substance is not longer ingested

Two physiological reactions to the chemicals ingested

—Another view of substance dependence uses _____ themselves as a measure of dependence

Drug seeking behaviors is referred to as ___ an not ___

—combines the physiological dependence with psychological aspects —

5 main categories of substances

◦result in behavioural sedation (e.g., alcohol, sedative, anxiolytic drugs)

◦result in behavioural sedation (e.g., alcohol, sedative, anxiolytic drugs)