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Lecture 1
Key for notes -
Yellow = definition
Pink = personal question
Blue = key point

Illustrative cases
 Parents both law enforcement
 Overdose
 Laced with fentanyl
 What drives the individual to do something?

Why I vape I dunno man ,

What drives the attraction to drugs, drugs as a broad term hormones, lsd, what drives the craving ?

 Risky behavior
 Legal oversight
 Age of initiation
 False sense of safety
 Influence if current penal system
 Involvement of cues
 Power of nicotine
 Legal vs illegal drugs

We believe legal drugs are less dangerous and less addictive.
 Example oxycodone , most spread widely used addictive compounds but are legal.
 Just because legal doesn’t mean safe.
 We don’t count nicotine, alcohol and caffeine in the war on drugs

-Alcohol-
 250 billion dollar cost on society a year
 Teenagers.

-Key definitions-
 Pharmacology = the scientific study of drugs and drug action ( scientific = research)
 Psychopharmacology= scientific study of the effects of drugs on behavior ( main focus of this
class)

-what is a drug?-
 A chemical entity or mixture
 Not required for the maintenance of health -------------> what about hormone's if you consider
mental state health?
 That alters biological function

 Psychoactive drugs = effect mood , cognition and or behavior

 What about natural substances ? Can they be classified as drugs ? Dietary supplements?

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