COCAINE TREATMENT
Introduction:Getting addicted to drugs can be very bad and harmful and trying to quit can be difficult. When it comes to drug abusers, if they use a psychological perspective, thry may find out why they are doing drugs and could possibly find an easier route into quitting. Each different perspective will talk about differnt ways to deal with the treatment of an abused drug, and in this case, cocaine. Cocaine is a widley used drug and researchers are struggling to find a way to block it; If only there could be ways to help, like methadone that helps heroine addicts block their receptor cites.
Biological Psychology Perspective:
This perspective is about how humans behavior can be explained in terms of body structure and biochemical processes that allow humans to do what they do. Cocaine, when taken causes a usualy short but very intense high. Every time an addict uses this drug the high becomes less and less therefore making the user want more and more. Cocaine use directly affects the madial pre-frontal cortex which is the area of the brain which deals with cognitive behavior, expression of personality and social behavior. all of these can and are affected by the use of cocaine. When an addict tries to stop using the drug, the biological Perspective is not the only thing keeping them from quiting. The users surroundings also influence how well their treatment goes, for instance if a cocanie addict first used the drug in a park, the sight of a park would be enough to trigger the want for more which is called a relapse. The biological perspective is one of the answers to the question of why people are addicted to drugs, but although it is just one of the answers it is one of the most important.
Learning Perspective:
This perspective shows different reinforcer's, both positive and negative, conditioning, both classical and operant, and stimulus's. All of these can contribute a drug addict into a positive path to succession in quitting. Drug abusers who use drugs like cocaine, use it to make certian pleasues in life feel good. That is an example of a positive reinforcer. A negative reinforcer would be a person using cocaine to avoid all problems occuring around them. Cocaine can be very addicting also because of conditioning. These addicts find ways to relate unrelatable things to cocaine and keeps driving them to smoke or sniff it more. There are two different kinds of conditioning and they are classical and operant. Classical conditioning is a type of learning which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was origionally evoked by another stimulus. Operant conditioning is a form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences.
Being able to quit a drug like cocaine can be very tough. Knowing why you started, what harm it is doing to the body and what the long term effects will be can possibly trigger someone to quit. Using techniques that fall into the learning perspective can help an addict quit, as long as they use the right method.
Cognitive Perspective:
This perspective refers to certain things such as thoughts, strategies, skills, attitudes, decision making, and even learning. Certain skills and attitudes change when you receive treatment for Cocaine, or any drug the less. Most of the time after receiving treatment a person's attitude changes in a very positive way. Also, developing more useful skills can be useful when the treatment is done. Just because the treatment is over, it doesn't mean all the knowledge you acquired is gone, it is only gained from those experiences.
There is an article that suggests that a person's spirituality has an impact on the treatment and recovery of addiction. There was supported evidence that linked substance use with spirituality. Spirituality refers to your religious beliefs and the certain types of practices you use. This is an important factor in treatment because is allows you to have an open mind towards the new experiences you might have. These experiences may be different attitudes, or certain skills that may be learned through the treatment.
The cognitive perspective points out that our mental processes surely influences the way that we behave. Decision making, reasoning, and problem sovling have shown that methods can be devised to study cognitive processes. the cognitive perspective has become the dominate perspective in contemporary psychology.
Social Psychology Perspective:
This perspective is about the way that people use Cocaine in many ways like for their culture, social situations, and they may have had issues with his or her family. In most cases of a person using Cocaine they have had issues with their family because that person's parent is most likely a single mother or father. In the social perspective I have learned that this is the most widely used perspective when they have tried to explain why a person uses drugs like Cocaine.
Culture is a big part of why people may use Cocaine because they have learned that it is ok to use Cocaine. In a lot of cultures they use cocaine as a part of their heritage because their family has used cocaine since they can remember. Some people use it for special occassions like if a family member is coming, or if the high person like the president is coming, or if it is like a marriage is going on.
Social situations is another big part of why people use Cocaine like if a friend or if you are out on the town like if you are drinking or if you are at a party you might try something out for fun. If you are drunk and don't know what you are doing you will most likely try it because you might overdose and die.
The social psychology perspective makes us understand how people may get mixed up in using Cocaine in many different situations. This perspective also makes points out to be very difficult for many cultures also because some countries have very different traditions.
In Conclusion, if drug addicts use all the different perspectives of psychology, anyone can overcome the bad habbits that they wish to no longer have
Group members
Michelle Roberts
Nikki Labarge
Shane Siskavich
Adam Tobroke
Jerimy D'Aust
Sources
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