1. Drug Abuse & Addiction

2. What is a drug?
Drug: chemical compound or substance that can alter the structure & function of the body.
Medication: drug that is used to treat an illness or disease according to guidelines

3. Drug abuse Illicit drugs or inappropriate use of a legal drug.
Why do people start abusing drugs?

4. Drug abuse is voluntary; Addiction is compulsive
Analyze data from a rat experiment
Rats were placed in cages with 2 levers
Food lever- pellet of food came out
Stimulus lever- received an injection or electrical stimulus
Graph the data for one rat
Evaluate the experiment
Compare with other members

5. Why do humans continue to abuse drugs? Addiction
Continued compulsive use of drugs despite adverse health or social consequences
What is the difference between abuse & addiction?

6. When does abuse become addiction?
Divide deck of cards
Face cards
Aces & number cards
Playing the Game
Each student in the group plays individually, but the members share the deck.

7. How does this relate to drug abuse & addiction?
Continue to abuse drugs at some point that will change the brain from abuser to addict
What does the switch card mean in regard to drug addiction?
Point to which the person’s brain changes & becomes dependent
Is everyone’s switch level the same?

8. What does the risk card mean? Is everyone's risk card the same?
Factors that influence the outcome
Is everyone's risk card the same?
Why is the risk card face down?
Do not know the risk factors of becoming addicted
What do the choice cards represent?
Episode of drug use
If a total score that equals or goes over the switch value indicates addiction, did anyone become addicted to drugs with the first drug use?
Cannot become addicted but can die from 1 episode

9. Play Again & Relate it to drug addiction
Did you play differently this time?
Does anyone really know the point the brain changes from abuser to addict?

10. Who Is Addicted?

11. Who Is Addicted?

12. Who is Addicted?

13. Evaluating Case Studies
Answer 1-6 about your case study
7-11 as a group

14. Assignment Topic: Addiction is a Brain Disease
Robert has been arrested several times for drug possession. After the 1st arrest, he was given probation. After the 2nd & 3rd arrests, he was sentenced to jail for 1 year each time. The police arrested him a 4th time, but instead of having Robert serve more time in jail, the judge ordered him to enter a drug treatment program.