Brainmarks of Addiction: The Story Behind the Story
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 138
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 138
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Over half of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is devoted to adolescent dysfunction, disorder, and addiction.
Addictionologists agree that addiction is a young person’s game. Shockingly, the most vulnerable group is between the ages of 14 and 24 years of age. What has not been known to the general public is young adults between the ages of 25 to 34 are still far from being out of the woods. Brainmarks of Addiction: The Story Behind the Story presents the various factors that lead to this susceptibility of addiction.
Brainmarks of Addiction: The Story Behind the Story:
- Addresses the ongoing efficacy of the powerful and endogenous chemical pathways, systems, and connections of the brain highlighted by ‘The Dopamine System’—the most dominant chemical pathway of addiction.
- Is based upon cutting edge, peer-reviewed research into addiction from several sources, including the National Institute of Drug Abuse, The Mayo Clinic and the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health, and Addiction, National Institute of Mental Health, and the Drug Enforcement Agency among others.
- Presents the medico/psychological/behavioral model referenced to as the neurobehavioral perspective in understanding intoxication and addiction.
Preface
Acknowledgement
Prologue: It’s a Certainty
Part 1 Chemical Pathways and Systems of the Brain
This Just In—Oxycontin Settlement
Chapter 1 Seven Brain Facts
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Chapter 2 The Chemical Players
The Da System (Das)
The Da–Ne System
The Endorphin System
Chapter 3 The Cortical Players
The Brainstem
Puberty and The MLS
Chapter 4 ‘Minding’ the Thinking and Feeling Brain
The Association Cortices
Part 2 Drugs of Abuse: Illegal and Legal
This Just In—Toxicology Report On Chris Benoit
Chapter 5 Illegal Drugs of Abuse
Marijuana
Cocaine
Methamphetamine
Club Drugs
Chapter 6 Legal Drugs of Abuse
Nicotine
Caffeine
Inhalants
Prescription Meds
Chapter 7 Alcohol Intoxication and Addiction
Brain Wise: How It Works
Addiction — A Brain Disease
Part 3 Who’s Minding the Intoxicated Brain?
This Just in – Two Sides of the Same Coin
Chapter 8 Sweet Poisons
Sugar Addiction
Aspartame
Chapter 9 Who’s Minding the Addicted Brain?
At The End Of The Day
Swapping Addictions
Send Us Your Story
Chapter 10 DEA Drug Schedules and the DSM
DEA
Drug Schedules Are Dynamic And Constantly Re-Evaluated
DSM Substance-related Disorders
Alcohol-induced Disorders
Epilogue
References
About the Author
Don Jacobs is an innovator in higher education. In 2004, he and colleagues at Weatherford College cofounded the first forensic science department and degree plan in Texas college history, a program that has attracted national attention and prestigious university partners.
Don Jacobs is a popular seminar presenter, author of several books from Kendall Hunt Publishing, including: Psychology of Deception: Analysis of Sexually Psychopathic Serial Crime (2009), Brainmarks: Headquarters for Things That Go Bump in the Night, A Lab Manual (2009), The New Word Scholar: A Vocabulary Tutorial (2013), Adjustment in the 21st Century: Adaptive Brainmarks & Survival of the Fittest (2016), & Analyzing Criminal Minds: Forensic Investigative Science for the 21st Century (2011), and Praeger & Sexual Forensics: Lust, Passion, and Psychopathic Killers with Ashleigh Portales (2014) Praeger.