Biological Psychology
Suboxone
| Addiction psychology has made a great impact on the field of biological psychology, especially when it comes to subjects such as |
|psycho-pharmacology. The abuse of prescription pain medicine has risen to an estimated 9 million in America alone who take the medication for |
|non-medical reasons. The psychology field has had a new revolution in addiction control called Suboxone. In order for psychiatric doctors or other|
|doctors to prescribe this medicine they are required to complete a training course on the substance. Rapidly replacing Methadone, a more |
|traditional detox and maintenance drug used for many years, Suboxone seems to have many treatment …show more content…
While it is nearly |
|impossible to overdose on Suboxone due to its ceiling effect, Methadone is easily abused as it is a full-agonist opiate. Another advantage that |
|Suboxone has over Methadone is it readability. Where patients must go to Methadone clinics for dosing, doctors can prescribe Suboxone for a month |
|at a time, allowing patients to detox and maintain their treatment. Buprenophine is available in two pill forms, one without Naloxone-called |
|Subutex, or one with Naloxone-called Suboxone. Naloxone is a well known opiate antagonist, that when injected, causes instant withdraw in the |
|patient. Putting this ingredient as an additive with Buprenophine keeps the drug from being abused. Buprenophine is usually prescribed for just a …show more content…
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|Excitatory and Inhibitory Post-synaptic Potentials |
|The role of excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic potentials is summed up by NCBI Bookshelf (n.d.); |
|“Postsynaptic conductance changes and the potential changes that accompany them alter the probability that an action potential will be produced in |
|the postsynaptic cell. Post-synaptic Potentials decrease the probability that the post synaptic cell will generate an action potential. PSPs are |
|called excitatory (or EPSPs) if they increase the likelihood of a postsynaptic action potential occurring, and inhibitory (or IPSPs) if they