Chapter 14

• Discuss the use of both legal and illegal substances in the United States? Compare use in the US to the worldwide patterns of drug use.
• Identify the distinction between drug use, drug abuse such as binge drinking, and addiction. State the three major components to dependence.
• Evaluate which factors play a role in who becomes addicted and who doesn't.
• List the steps in the pattern of addiction. Describe the mechanisms that move the process from one step to the next.
• Explain the neurological changes drugs and alcohol have on the brain.
• Estimate the effects of genetics, gender, age, and culture on the prevalence rates of alcohol use disorder.
• State the primary psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, as well as its impacts on an individual's body and brain.
• Discuss the relationship between cannabis and psychosis.
• Explain how hallucinogens, even though they are not addictive, can cause impairments to the individual using them.
• List some common opioids. Discuss what is it about opioids that makes them sought after as medicines as well as substances to abuse.
• Describe some of the factors that impact the brain changes that occur from the use of cocaine.
• Describe some of the factors that promote the use and abuse of amphetamines.
• Identify the affects of amphetamines and caffeine on the body.
• Discuss the addictive ingredient in tobacco and its impacts on an individual's body and brain.
• Illustrate the characteristics of pathological gambling that make it an addictive disorder.
• State the primary steps in a treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. Examine treating addiction is such a difficult process.