Other Drugs

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Other Drugs Other Addictions

• Chapter 7

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Addictive Behaviors

• Addictive behaviors alter brain chemistry in much
  the same way as psychoactive drugs.
• The individual desires to change their mood and
  alter their state of consciousness.

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Compulsive Addictions

• Compulsive Gambling
• Sexual Addiction
• Compulsive Shopping
• Internet Addictions
• Computer Pornography
• Computer Relationship Addiction
• Games Violent time consuming

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Compulsive Addictions

• Eating Disorders
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Binge-Eating Disorder

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Compulsive Behaviors

• Impulse Control Disorders a failure to resist
  an impulse that is harmful to the individual or
  others. Starts out pleasurable become anxiety
  provoking
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder repetitive
  activities whose goal is to reduce anxiety or
  stress, not to provide pleasure or gratification.

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Drugs Athletes
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Classification Drugs

• Therapeutic Drugs
• Anabolic Steroids Other Performance Enhancing
  Drugs
• Stimulants
• Growth Hormones
• Recreational Mood Altering

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Therapeutic Drugs

• Analgesics Painkillers
• Nonsteroidal aspirin, ibuprofen
• Muscle Relaxants valium, soma
• Anti-inflammatory
• Corticosteroids cortisone, prednisone
• Asthma Medications
• Increase oxygen intake, muscle energy growth

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Anabolic Steroids Performance Enhancing Drugs

• Anabolic increases muscle mass
• Androgenic producing masculine characteristics
• Steroid chemical classification of the natural
  synthetic compounds resembling hormones like
  testosterone cortisone

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Side Effects

• 1990 Omnibus Crime Control Act
• Steroids became Schedule III
• Use is banned by Olympics, NCAA, most
  professional sports
• Psychological Problems
• roid rage uncontrollable manic rage, violence
• Long term physical problems

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Stimulants

• Erogenic energy producing a general term for
  performance enhancement
• Amphetamines 1940-50 reports of pep pills being
  used by professional soccer, boxers, cyclists,
  NFL football
• 1967 Tour de France cyclist died
• 1968 International Drug Testing

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Human Growth Hormone

• A pituitary hormone responsible for increase in
  the height weight in some individuals creates
  gigantic
• changes
• 1990 legislation placed restrictions on anabolic
  steroid use. Made it a crime to use HGH for
  nonmedical
• purposes

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Creatine

• A natural substance found in meat fish
• Improve strength short term speed
• in sprinting
• Users gain weight long distance runners,
  cyclist, swimmers
• No athletic improvement
• Used most by body builders

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Recreational/Mood-Altering

• Stimulants
• Sedative-Hypnotics
• Alcohol
• Marijuana