Course Outcomes

KSA’s

3.            Describe the behavioral, psychological, physical health and social effects of psychoactive drugs including alcohol and tobacco on the consumer and significant others.

4.              Recognize the potential for substance use disorders to mimic a variety of medical and psychological disorders and the potential for medical and psychological disorders to co-exist with addiction and substance abuse.

5.         Be familiar with medical and pharmaceutical resources in the treatment of addictive diseases and other substance-related disorders.

102.      Describe warning signs, symptoms, and the course of substance use disorders.

123.       Demonstrate strategies to maintain one's own physical and mental health.

Other objectives

Understand the physiological mechanisms, neural mechanisms and neurochemical processes related to psychoactive drugs.

Understand the pharmacokinetics of psychoactive drugs.

Understand the pharmacodynamics of psychoactive drugs.

Understand the physiology and psychology behind the use and abuse of these drugs

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