Group Discussion Question: 1) Briefly describe how people (or animals) develop \
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Group Discussion Question: 1) Briefly describe how people (or animals) develop "conditioned drug tolerance." 2) Be sure to identify what the US, UR, CS, and CR in your explanation of conditioned drug tolerance. 3) Next, respond to two peers in your group and evaluate their posts. NOTE: This is a "Short Essay" Group Discussion assignment. Your post will be graded based on the correctness and completeness of your response to the Group Discussion question/prompt. Be sure to answer these assignments carefully, accurately, and completely in order to receive the greatest number of points!Explanation / Answer
Drug Tolerance is a Classical Conditioning process. As a person starts to get habituated with the intake of a particular Drug, the Drug-taking pattern or process (bottle opening, a needle or a chillum) triggers a signal that anticipates the intake of the Drug in the body. This gradually develops a response in the body that secretes Drug Antagonists that help reduce the effect of the drug in the body. This reduces the body's response to the Drug creating Drug Tolerance.
The regular pattern of Drug intake for a person, including the place and setting of intake, acts as the Conditioned Stimulus (CS) followed by the Physiological changes and adaptation to the Drug in the person. The Physiological changes and the Adaptation to the Drug are the Conditioned Response (CR). If the person is subjected to a different process, place, and set-up for Drug intake, it becomes an Unconditioned Stimulus (US) for him and he may show different Physiological properties as the Drug anticipation process has been restricted. The new Physiological responses to the same Drug in the changed setting are the Unconditioned Responses (UR) and can be very serious.
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