Describing addiction

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Clues

  • Change in bodily state because of drug use. Withdrawal symptoms when the drug is not being taken, examples being sweating, racing heart, nausea, headache, loss of energy. Only able to establish physical dependence for certain when abstaining (8, 10)
  • learns to adjust behaviour to compensate for effects of drug. (11, 9)
  • Needing more of a drug to get usual effects. There is reduction in response to drink and need more to experience same effect. Homeostasis. Tolerance is caused by repeated exposure to the effects of the drug. (9)
  • set of symptoms that arise when addicted person stops/ reduces drug use. Symptoms often opposite of ones created by drug. (10, 8)
  • tolerance of one drug reduces sensitivity to another drug. (5, 9)

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