Selected Drug Education CurriculaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 |
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Página lxxiv - ... with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system.
Página 61 - Drug addiction is a state of periodic or chronic intoxication, detrimental to the individual and to society, produced by the repeated consumption of a drug (natural or synthetic). Its characteristics include: "(1) An overpowering desire or need (compulsion) to continue taking the drug and to obtain it by any means ; "(2) A tendency to increase the dose; "(3) A psychic (psychological) and sometimes a physical dependence on the effects of the drug.
Página 61 - Its characteristics include: (1) an overpowering desire or need (compulsion) to continue taking the drug and to obtain it by any means; (2) a tendency to increase the dose; (3) a psychic (psychological) and generally a physical dependence on the effects of the drug; (4) detrimental effect on the individual and on society.
Página 131 - Cannabis" means the flowering or fruiting tops of the Cannabis plant (excluding the seeds and leaves when not accompanied by the tops) from which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name they may be designated. (c) "Cannabis plant" means any plant of the genus Cannabis.
Página 64 - Psychological Dependence An attachment to drug use which arises from a drug's ability to satisfy some emotional or personality need of an individual. This attachment does not require a physical dependence, although physical dependence may seem to reinforce psychological dependence. An individual may also be psychologically dependent on substances other than drugs. 14. Psychosis A major mental disorder; any serious mental derangement. "Psychosis" replaces the old term "insanity.
Página 62 - ... drug dependence is a state of psychic or physical dependence, or both, on a drug, arising in a person following administration of that drug on a periodic or continuous basis. The characteristics of such a state will vary with the agent involved, and these characteristics must always be made clear by designating the particular type of drug dependence in each specific case; for example, drug dependence of morphine type, of barbiturate type, of amphetamine type, etc.
Página 155 - ... becomes a habit for emotional reasons. For example, the addict comes to depend on the drug as a way to escape facing life. Narcotic use can become even more of an escape than expected because large or unexpectedly pure doses can, and not uncommonly do, result in death. What Is the Effect of the Drug? Typically, the first emotional reaction to heroin is reduction of tension, easing of fears and relief from worry. Feeling "high" may be followed by a period of inactivity bordering on stupor.
Página 155 - Studies show that this type of addict has personality and emotional difficulties not much different from other regular narcotic users. What Is the life of an addict like? Many addicts admit that, once on drugs, getting a continued supply becomes the main object of their lives.
Página 62 - Its characteristics include: 1) A desire (but not a compulsion) to continue taking the drug for the sense of improved wellbeing which it engenders; 2) Little or no tendency to increase the dose; 3) Some degree of psychic dependence on the effect of the drug, but absence of physical dependence and hence of an abstinence syndrome ; 4) Detrimental effects, if any, primarily on the individual.
Página 130 - After careful appraisal of available information concerning marihuana (cannabis) and its components, and their derivatives, analogues and isomers, the Council on Mental Health and the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of the American Medical Association and the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, have reached the following conclusions: 1.