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| | Recreational Drug Use |
 | | For set we are generally concerned with an individual’s state of physical and emotional health at the time the drug is used, what their previous experiences are with a particular drug, and what their expectations for that drug are. | | | Predictable drug outcomes are the result of responsible use of those drugs. | | | On the other hand, if an individual chooses to use a psychoactive drug recreationally and within the acceptable limits of the social group, that decision should also be supported by the abstainer, as long as he or she remains a part of the group. |
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http://www.aa2.org/philosophy/recuse.htm
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| | APHA - American Journal of Public Health Editorials - Des Jarlais editorial |
| | The present system for regulating psychoactive drug use in the United States clearly has many deficiencies, which is not surprising, given that the system originated prior to scientific understanding of the effects of drugs and often within contexts of intergroup cultural conflicts (i.e., racist stereotyping of certain forms of drug use within certain racial/ethnic groups). | | | Many psychoactive drugs are sufficiently dangerous that their unregulated commercial exploitation would lead to unacceptable levels of social and individual harm. | | | Within a traditional economic framework, the value of nonmedical psychoactive drug use would be measured by what consumers are willing to pay, and this would lead to very high estimates of the value of nonmedical psychoactive drug use. |
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http://www.apha.org/journal/editorials/editdjar.htm
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| | The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Psychoactive Drugs and Athletic Performance |
| | The physiologic actions of psychoactive drugs and their use by high school and college athletes are discussed here. | | | Psychoactive drug use by high school and college athletes is extraordinarily common. | | | These drugs have been promoted by athletes and coaches as a substitute for alcohol in shooting (in the modern pentathlon and biathlon). |
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http://www.physsportsmed.com/issues/1997/01jan/schwenk.htm
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| | Unit 2 Lecture |
| | Describe the modern drug problem in terms of medical versus social use of drugs, and the use of legally procured drugs versus illegal use of drugs. | | | You will be able to see how changes in sociality have influenced the drugs that were used and abused, how the medical profession, government and the advertising media have influenced human behavior as it relates to the use of psychoactive drugs. | | | The social consequences of drug use and addiction were recognized. |
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http://www.rsu.edu/faculty/lashbaugh/unit_2_lecture.htm
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| | Psychoactive Substances and Violence |
| | Pharmacological therapies to reduce drug craving and aggressive tendencies associated with alcohol use and heroin addiction. | | | Alcohol is the only psychoactive drug that in many individuals tends to increase aggressive behavior temporarily while it is taking effect. | | | The anecdotes usually describe chronic users with histories of psychosis or antisocial behavior, which may or may not be related to their chronic use of drugs. |
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http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/GOVPUBS/psycviol.htm
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| | Drug plants |
| | Can have legitimate medicinal value (as a therapeutic drug) but also be used illicitly (recreationally) to achieve pleasure, stimulation, mental relaxation. | | | Used as a drug by ancient Chinese for a variety of illnesses (rheumatism, gout, malaria, etc.). | | | Plant used for drug and fiber by humans for thousands of years. |
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http://www.science.siu.edu/plant-biology/PLB117/Nickrent.Lecs/drugs.html
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| | Consultant Pharmacist |
| | Although the use of antidepressants has increased in the 30 nursing facilities studied, this class of drugs may remain underutilized considering the many reports of widespread depression in nursing facility populations, and the many uses for these drugs such as an adjunct in relief of chronic pain. | | | Decreased utilization of psychoactive drugs with significant adverse side-effect profiles, such as anxiolytics, highly anticholinergic amitriptyline, and sedative/hypnotics, has certainly resulted in significant monetary savings, as well as an improvement in quality of life. | | | Drugs were categorized for this study according to the 1995 edition of Drug Facts and Comparison. |
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http://www.ascp.com/public/pubs/tcp/1998/jan/review2.shtml
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| | A Chronology of Psychoactive Substance Use |
| | Many Americans view the contemporary drug situation as a unique problem unlike any experienced before; in fact, the use of drugs or psychoactive substances seems to be an almost universal phenomenon which has long been a complex, often highly volatile social concern. | | | The study of drug history can also help us distinguish between the direct pharmacological effects of a substance and those external factors which influence an individual's experience with a drug, the spread of its use, and society's response. | | | A cohesive drug subculture emerges, the typical member being a younger, urban, male heroin user, who uses the drug for pleasure and obtain it illicitly. |
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http://www.taima.org/en/psychoactive.htm
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| | Drug Policy Alliance: Harm Reduction: A Framework for Incorporating Science into Drug Policy |
| | The drug preparations should be formulated to reduce the likelihood of dependency and of immediate behavioral impairment. | | | Drug use leads to individual and social harms through many different mechanisms, so a wide range of interventions is needed to address these harms. | | | Nonmedical use of psychoactive drugs is inevitable in any society that has access to such drugs. |
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http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/tlcdjarl.cfm
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| | Prescription, over-the-counter, and black-market drugs |
| | The preponderance of women using psychoactive drugs was more evident for prescription drugs than for over-the-counter drugs. | | | Thus 41 percent of the prescription psychoactive ' drugs used by men were obtained through such channels, as compared with 20 percent of the prescription psychoactive drugs used by women. | | | Though women use more psychoactive drugs than men do, men are much more inclined to rely on informal channels for obtaining their prescription drugs. |
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http://www.drugtext.org/library/reports/cu/CU62.html
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| | Use of Prescription Psychoactive Drugs in Medicaid, 1995, National Mental Health Information Center |
| | This table takes a subset of the psychoactive drug users, those that take antidepressant drugs and breaks down their use by the individual antidepressant drug. | | | This table was examined to see how the distribution of drugs varies from the general population who use prescription psychoactive drugs to the MH/SA population who use these drugs. | | | The percent of total drug users who use prescription psychoactive drugs ranges from 16.1% in Georgia and Wyoming to 22.4% in Arkansas. |
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http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA02-3712
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| | Chapter 13 -- Drug Action and Addiction |
| | - Robinson and Berridge (1993) have suggested that the expectation of the pleasurable effects of drugs may become sensitized in addicts; a key point of this incentive-sensitization theory is that addicts don't receive more pleasure from the drug, it is the anticipated pleasure that motivates their behavior. | | | - contingent drug tolerance is any drug-tolerance effect that is contingent on the occurrence of a particular experience or behavior while the subject is under the influence of the drug; it is usually demonstrated by before-and-after experiments | | | - not all drug users are addicts; addicts are drug users who habitually use a drug despite their efforts to stop and despite its adverse effects on their health and social life |
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http://ceci.uprm.edu/~ephoebus/id88.htm
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| | Psychoactive Drug Mechanisms -- Neurotransmitter.net |
| | Entacapone, a drug used to treat Parkinson's disease, is a peripheral catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor. | | | Hallucinogenic drugs are partial agonists of the human platelet shape change response: a physiological model of the 5-HT2 receptor. | | | The action of the psychoactive drug 2C-B on isolated rat thoracic aorta. |
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http://www.neurotransmitter.net/drugmechanisms.html
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| | PSYC070: Final Assignment |
| | Both reports should focus on the same drug or drug class, but you may choose which drug or drug class to critique. | | | Both articles you critique for this assignment must be based on the same psychoactive drug or psychoactive drug class. | | | Your articles (and therefore, your critique) should deal with at least one of the following issues: (1.) the behavioral effects, physiological effects, side-effects, toxicity and/or abuse potential of a given psychoactive drug (or drug class); or (2.) the definition of and factors involved in addiction to a psychoactive drug (or drug class). |
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http://www.unc.edu/courses/pre2000fall/psyc070a/final.html
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| | Scope of drug use |
| | The normse of mind-affecting drugs, indeed, can be described as aberrant behavior, deviating from the norms of American society. | | | Whether or not such substances are legally defined as drugs however, they are all closely related components of our national drug problem. | | | While the Parry-Cisin study did not cover other illicit drugs such as LSD, heroin, illicit barbiturates, illicit amphetamines, and so on, it is clear from data in earlier chapters (and in the following chapter)-that the amounts of those drugs used is trivial compared with the amounts of caffeirie, nicotine, alcohol, and marijuana used. |
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http://www.drugtext.org/library/reports/cu/CU61.html
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| | PSYC070: Movie Critique Assignment |
| | Describe some of the behavioral effects associated with the main character’s use of this psychoactive drug(s). | | | Each movie focuses on the use of one particular psychoactive drug, but each movie also portrays the use of other psychoactive drugs. | | | Be sure to mention if the use of a psychoactive drug did not lead to societal problems. |
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http://www.unc.edu/courses/pre2000fall/psyc070a/movie.html
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| | Dr. P's Psychoactive Drugs & Behavior Resources |
| | Classroom Psychopharmacology is concerned with the study of drugs as they affect children in classrooms | | | Drugs, Brains and Behavior by C. Timmons and L. Hamilton (online book previously published by Prentice Hall) | | | Drugs, Brains and Behavior online book by C. Timmons, Ph.D. and L. Hamilton, Ph.D. RxList - The Internet Drug Index from N. Sandow, Pharm.D. (includes Top 200 list) |
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http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/mp/tdrugs.htm
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| | The Body: Psychoactive Drugs |
| | Psychosis is a condition in which a person may not be able to think clearly, recognize reality, or act rationally. | | | Benzodiazepines are a class of psychoactive drugs used to treat anxiety and insomnia. | | | Medications that affect people psychologically are called psychoactive drugs. |
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http://www.thebody.com/pinf/drugbkix.html
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| | PDSP - Home Page |
| | Research areas of interest are described in the Division of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Research webpage. | | | Bryan Roth MD, PhD (Case Western Reserve University) will perform pharmacological and functional screening of novel compounds as a contractor to NIMH. | | | Academic investigators involved in basic or clinical research relevant to mental health. |
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http://pdsp.cwru.edu/pdsp.htm
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| | PDSP - Database |
| | This web site is funded by the NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program and by a gift from the Heffter Research Institute. | | | database is a unique resource in the public domain which provides information on the abilities of drugs to interact with an expanding number of molecular targets. | | | , or affinity, values for a large number of drugs and drug candidates at an expanding number of G-protein coupled receptors, ion channels, transporters and enzymes. |
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http://pdsp.cwru.edu/pdsp.asp
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