Drug Addiction
Read p. 383 – 385 in blue text
1. take notes on this section
2. answer the following:
a. What are the differences between drug dependency, drug addiction and drug tolerance?
b. Is alcohol a stimulant or a depressant? What are the stages of alcoholism? What can be done to help alcoholics?
Warning sign of problem drinkers:
1. Increased Desire: Urge to drink more often and/or centering a day’s or week’s activity around a drink.
2. Increased Tolerance: Need to drink more alcohol to reach the desired “high”
3. Extreme Mood Changes: Acting in ways uncharacteristic with past behavioural patterns.
4. Black Outs: Total lapses of memory or only partial recall of behavior while drinking.
5. Morning Drinking: Picking up a drink to start the day or ease a hangover. (Not just in the morning, but at any appropriate time.)
Distinguish between dependence, tolerance, and addiction.
*** There is also an addiction worksheet to be completed. If you were away on the field trip you need to come by and sign out a text and get the worksheet for Monday's class.
Read p. 383 – 385 in blue text
1. take notes on this section
2. answer the following:
a. What are the differences between drug dependency, drug addiction and drug tolerance?
b. Is alcohol a stimulant or a depressant? What are the stages of alcoholism? What can be done to help alcoholics?
Warning sign of problem drinkers:
1. Increased Desire: Urge to drink more often and/or centering a day’s or week’s activity around a drink.
2. Increased Tolerance: Need to drink more alcohol to reach the desired “high”
3. Extreme Mood Changes: Acting in ways uncharacteristic with past behavioural patterns.
4. Black Outs: Total lapses of memory or only partial recall of behavior while drinking.
5. Morning Drinking: Picking up a drink to start the day or ease a hangover. (Not just in the morning, but at any appropriate time.)
Distinguish between dependence, tolerance, and addiction.
*** There is also an addiction worksheet to be completed. If you were away on the field trip you need to come by and sign out a text and get the worksheet for Monday's class.