In: Psychology
Is the dose-response relationship for most psychoactive drugs characterized by a threshold model or a linear model? Explain your answer.
Answer:
The dose response relationship/exposure response relationship
exhibit the variation effect on a species due to varying categories
of exposure to stressor (physical or chemical) after a particular
time of exposure or food.
It is applicable to individuals.
For example small quantity create very little effect, a huge
quantity create fatal effect)
Dose–response relationships basically depend on the exposure route
and time. Responses due to different time exposure and routers
exhibit different relationship and results on the impact of
stressor. after a different exposure time or for a different route
leads to a different relationship and possibly different
conclusions on the effects of the stressor under consideration.
These limitation are due to the complexity of biological systems
& biological processes .
A threshold model or linear model states that certain dose of a
psychoactive drugs is dangerous and doses below the limit is safe.
This model is generally applicable to psychodrugs health
hazards.