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Substance Dependence Assignment

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Psychopathology (psych341) assignment “Substance dependence”

Name : Thabsile Shange
Student number : 213502880
Due date : 10/03/2015

Substance use was not given much attention in the past but now in the modern times it is recognise a mental disorder. The DSM which is the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders categories substance use disorder into 4 namely substance abuse, substance dependence substance intoxication and substance withdrawal. In this essay I will discuss substance dependence in more details.

Substance dependence is most often confused with substance abuse they are most often taken as a same thing but these two are very different in their nature. There are many definition of substance …show more content…

The user begin to spend more time in activities that evolve around the substance their life’s begin to be controlled by the substance and may end up not having/making time for other social activities , they spend all their time using, trying to get, and recovering from the substance, they becomes slaves to the substance so to speak. Physical and psychological problems may arise due to the use of the substance but this does not make the user want to quit. But the user may want to quit and may even make attempts which usually end in failure( Austin et el, …show more content…

As a result the is a large number of children with foetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol use continues to be a big problem in south Africa, but there are racial and geographical division in the pattern of substance use in south Africa, racial groups that were previously disadvantaged tend to have a bigger alcohol problem, this maybe because they have no recreational facilities or places of entertainment to keep them out of trouble the type of substances used differ according to racial groups and region, but alcohol is a big problem in south Africa it is the leading cause of death, trauma, high risk behavior, family violence and academic failure(Austin et el,

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