Marjorie Benton

Drug categories – Stimulants

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Question Description: There are 7 drug categories – Stimulants, Depressants, Hallucinogens, Inhalants, Narcotics, Steroids, Cannabis. Each category impacts brain function and behavior, has particular ways of ingestion, and creates a certain reaction within the body.

For this Assignment, you compare substances within two of the seven drug categories.

By Day 7
Submit a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

Choose two drug categories. For each drug category:
Identify the drugs that belong to that category
Briefly discuss the history of substance use and social response related to the drug category (e.g., how were the substances created, when did people start to use these types of substances, how or in what ways did these substance affect society).
Identify how the drugs are administered (e.g., inhalation, injection, orally, nasally) in this category.
Discuss how substances in the category impact the brain including which neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) that are affected.
Explain the physical impact the substances in this category may have on the body.
Compare the similarities and differences between the drug categories.

Explain any differences in treatment approaches for the two different drug categories, and why it is important to understand the different drug categories as a social worker.
Class text book, must use

FOUNDATIONS OF ADDICTIONS COUNSELING

Third Edition
David Capuzzi
Walden University
Johns Hopkins University
Professor Emeritus, Portland State University
Mark D. Stauffer
Walden University
Answer preview
The term addiction refers to a situation whereby an individual is under compulsion to use a specific substance despite its overall harmful effect on the brain. Earlier societies perceived addiction as a penchant to indulge in useless or harmful behaviors (Haldipur, 2018). Psychoactive substances have posed an ever-present problem to human civilizations, with historians tracing early documents that show different societies’ disapproval of drug use, given the dangers it posed (Haldipur, 2018). With society becoming more enlightened on the extent of the psychotropic substances’ problem, less vindictive terms like substance abuse and dependency have become more common as society tries to dispel the stigma associated with the term addiction. In a marked shift from the era of adverse therapy,
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Drug categories – Stimulants