Mar 29, 2024  
2015 - 2016 CNM Catalog, Volume 48.1 
    
2015 - 2016 CNM Catalog, Volume 48.1 [The CNM Academic Year includes Fall, Spring, Summer Terms]

PSY 1150 - Drug Abuse and Treatment

3 credit hour(s)
Prerequisite: RDG 0950 .

Provides a historical and psychosocial perspective on the use, abuse, and social control of psychoactive drugs. Included are overviews of the biopsychosocial nature of addiction; the impact of addiction on children, families and society; the physiological processes and impacts of psychoactive drugs on the person including risk factors related to addiction, acute and chronic health problems, communicable diseases, and fetal impacts; contemporary treatment and prevention approaches including synergistic risk factors, detoxification, and withdrawal; and the addiction counseling profession.