CRI2101 Lecture 6 PDF

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Lecture 6 Professional Skills Drug Use • A drug is any substance, solid, liquid or gas that brings about physical and/or psychological changes in the body • Psychoactive Drug (mood/mind altering) –acts on the central nervous system and can change the way a person thinks, feels or behaves Reward System • Limbic System or Reward System regulates feelings of pleasure • The release of dopamine creates the feeling of euphoria and reinforces the behaviour, making us want to repeat it Psychoactive drugs are classified into 4 categories. • Stimulants • Increase alertness of CNS • Depressants • Decrease activity of CNS • Hallucinogens • Affect the CNS by causing perceptual distortions and hallucinations • Others • Have more than one effect on the CNS Drug use models Shafers model - Experimental - Social - Situational - Intensive - Compulsive Interaction model • The Interaction Model from Social Learning Theory states that: 1. There are reasons why people use drugs 2. People learn to use drugs Thorleys model •

Harm Minimisation aims to: • Improve health, social and economic outcomes by preventing the uptake of harmful drug use and reducing the harmful effects of licit and illicit drugs in Australian society. (The National Drug Strategy, 2004-2009) • The aim of the exercise is not to purge the world of folly, but to arrange things so that the smallest possible number of people sustain the least possible harm (Ellard 1992)

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Strategies are for the drug user and the community to achieve an overall Net Harm...