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Science of addiction
How we become addicted to drugs?
Trying drugs/alcohol for the first time
Experience positive effects such as euphoria, self-esteem, adrenaline, etc.
Believe that we dominate the substance
Seek to use the substance again
At this stage the substance has already dominated the person
Develop constant consumption of the substance
At this point the prefrontal cortex, the basal ganglia and the extended amygdala were already affected.
Stop drug use (abstinence)
At this stage, a risk of relapse can be generated where the patient develops an anchor (place, smell, person, etc.)
A dependency is generated where drugs act as the magic 3/reward circuit to establish interconnections and function/think "correctly"
Drugs act as neurotransmitters, transporters and synapses
Drugs send distorted signals to each other
Important parts of the human organism
Brain
Prefrontal cortex
Helps
Decision
Making
Evaluation
Self-control
Problem solving
Planning
In adolescence this area it's still developing
Mechanism
Composed of millions of cells
Neurons
Interconnections
Neurotransmitter
Synaps
Transporter
Communication
Send signals
Basal ganglia
Guides/directs
Feelings
Pleasure
Motivation
Caused by
Eating
Exercising
Having sex
Build
Habits
Routines
Reward circuit
Extended amygdala
Guides/directs
Anxiety
Discomfort
Irritability
The area responsible for searching for the drugs
Concept
History
30's
Drug addict stereotype
Lack of willpower
Morally impaired
Treatment
Moral problem
Physical reprimands
Definition
Medical problem
Where a substance is constantly present and an absence of it is experienced
Affects
Brain
Behaviour
Attitude
Moral
Decision making process
Memory
Sympthoms
Stress
Loss of self-control
Consequences/affects
Cardiovascular
Heart rate
Pulmonary
Breathing abiity
Overdose
Death
Cerebrovascular diseases
Insomnia
Cancer
Mental health conditions
Depression
Anxiety
Schizophrenia
More likely to develop infectious diseases
Motherhood
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)
Tremors
Problems while
Sleeping
Feeding
Seizures
Behaviour
Attention
Thinking (cognition)
Facts
Abuse
Nicotine
Alcohol
Illicit drugs
Loss
Costs
Crime
Productivity
Adds
Deaths
500,000 per year
Substance exposure
Teens
Consequences in the development of their cognition
Adults
Introversion
Parents
Lifetime trauma to their children
Children/babies
By their mother
Why does people start to consume drugs?
The desire to feel good
To forget their problems
Distraction from reality
Daydreaming
The need to feel good about themselves
Euphoria
Develop self-steem
To improve their perfomance
Althetic use
Adrenaline
Motivation
Cognitive goals
Social pressure
Adolescence
Curiosity
Initiative
How can we know if we are prone to becoming addicted to a substance?
Risk factors
Agressive behaviour in childhood
Lack of parental supervision
Substance experimentation
Protective factors
Positive relationships
Parental supervision
Drug awareness workshops at school
Crucial elements
Biology
Cognitive development
Ethnicity
Genes
Gender
Poor school performance
Parental upbringing
Stage of development in which the person consumes drugs
The way in which it is consumed
Breathing it
Injecting it
How can we prevent it?/How can we treat it?
Preventive programs
Universal
Audience
Voluntary
General
Selective
Audience
Teenagers
Audience at risk of addiction
Indicated
Teenagers
Addicts
Therapy
Behavioural counseling
Medications
Detoxification
Types
Withdrawal
Sympthoms
Anxiety
Depression
Insomnia
Mental health conditions
To stay in treatment
To counreact physical effects
Less painful
Prevent relapse
Depends on
Patient surrounds
Places
Things
Moods
Anti-opioid
Methadone
Buprenorphine
Naltrexone
Anti-nicotine
Bupropion
Varenicline
To combat alcohol addictions
Naltrexone
Disulfiram
Acamprosate