Online CEUs - Marijuana: Effects on Brain, Body and Behavior

3 CEUs $6

CE Course Description

This short course covers selected effects of marijuana on the brain, body and behavior. In addition to information about how it affects the mind and body, it includes statistics on marijuana use in the US.

CE Course Objectives

1. Learn the extent of marijuana use in the US, particularly among young people.

2. Know about some of the effects of marijuana on brain structure

3. Learn what long term behavioral and social effects studies show that adolescent marijuana use has.

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Could See Rise in Addiction Diagnosis with New DSM

Re-writers of the manual that serves as the nation’s bible of mental illness have agreed to revise the definition of addiction, which could result in millions more people being diagnosed as addicts. 


This change would expand the list of recognized symptoms for drug and alcohol addiction, while also reducing the number of symptoms required for a diagnosis, according to proposed changes announced on the APA website.

And for the first time it might include gambling as an addiction, and introduce a category — “behavioral addiction — not otherwise specified” — that could be used by doctors to diagnose addictions to shopping, sex, using the Internet or playing video games.