📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
💊 Pharmacology
- Substance abuse, dependence, addiction and habituation.
- Withdrawal/abstinence syndrome.
- Cross-tolerance.
- Reverse tolerance/sensitization.
- Cross-dependence.
- Dopamine hypothesis of addiction.
- Addictive versus non-addictive drugs of abuse.
- Club drugs.
- High- and moderate-risk drugs for addiction.
- Pharmacological treatment of nicotine, alcohol and cannabis abuse.
- Drug abuse in sports.
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🍺 Alcohol
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- Ethanol pharmacokinetics and mechanism.
- Pharmacological effects, clinical uses and adverse effects.
- Disulfiram-like reaction.
- Alcohol withdrawal.
- Pharmacological treatment of alcoholism.
⚖️ Forensic Medicine
- Psychological effects of drug dependence.
- Drug abuse.
- Theoretical approach to investigating a narcotics-related case.