key question- biological

• Heroin addiction


  Drug therapy (methadone) for treating
• Effectiveness of drug therapy (methadone) for treating heroin addiction

  • Description of the issue for society
  • Description of the issue for individuals
• Addict not on treatment
• Progression costs society £26,000 per year
• Cost of drug misuse to the NHS £488 million per year
• Victims of drug-related crimes (burglary)
• Needle use - HIV, hepatitis
• Public may come into contact with needles
• Strain on policing and the NHS
• H


  Application of psychological knowledge to help individuals and society
• A02


  Application of psychological knowledge
• AC


  Application of psychological knowledge to help individuals and society
• Ap


  Application of psychological knowledge
• ps


  Application of psychological knowledge to help individuals and society
• to


  Application of psychological knowledge to help individuals and society
• Apply Mode of action of Heroin + Methadone (how does it work in the brain, tolerance, withdrawal, how is it taken?)

  1. How it works in the brain

  2. Tolerance

  3. Withdrawal

  4. How it is taken
• A03


  Evaluation of psychological knowledge - how useful is it to individuals and society?
• Methadone is effective: reduces use over time, stabilises addict, avoids committing crime and reliance on dealers, no needle use
• Doesn't deal with cause of add. or stop cravings, can be abused, replace one substance with another, may not decrease over time