addictions types and characteristics
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- Created on: 09-05-16 14:42
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- Definitions, types and characteristicsof addictions
- Definitions: Griffiths- salience, tolerance, mood modification, withdrawal, conflict and relapse
- Types
- Pyromania - when people start fires.
- Kleptomania-urge to hoard and collect things
- Gambling- feel the need to gamble, continue to gamble whether they win or lose.
- Impulse control:An impulse, A growing tension, Pleasure when impulse is satisfied, Relief from satisfaction, Guilt or lack of guilt
- Physical vs psychological
- Physical: refers to when the body becomes used to functioning with the drug.
- Psychologic: need the addictive substance to maintain a stable mental health
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