Opioids
The body experiences flu-like symptoms. To include fatigue, nausea, physical pain, pins, and needles. The client is less likely to die from this but will feel like they are dieing.
What are opioid withdrawals
___________ are a class of drug that affects the body’s central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord. They increase the levels of catecholamines—a family of brain chemicals that includes dopamine. These chemicals are used in the brain processes to signal reward and motivation.
What are stimulants?
Before the era of modern medicine, the most commonly prescribed sedative to ease tension, cause relaxation and help forget problems was __________. Its beneficial effects were definitely the reason why this drug gained such popularity and is still the most commonly abused sedative of all time.
What is Alcohol?
Dopamine is found in the __________ ___________ of the brain.
What is the Reward Center of the brain?
Manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence. Has an intense focus on using a certain substance(s), such as alcohol or drugs, to the point that it takes over their life. keep using even when they know it will cause problems. Impairs a person ability to function daily.
What is addiction?
These are locks in the brain that has a naturally occurring key, but the key can be replicated through drugs. When this substance is used in excess these naturally occurring locks multiply to create an increased need for the drug.
What are opioid receptors?
________increase your ability to pay attention, stay focused on an activity, and control behavior problems. It may also help you to organize your tasks and improve listening skills. It is also used to treat narcalepsy.
What is Adderall?
In 1950s the first ___________ were marketed as valid substitutes for dangerous barbiturates. Although initially viewed as completely safe and free from problems of dependence, tolerance and withdrawal, today we know that this drug as less than ideal antianxiety drugs, and that their long-term usage can cause all the aforementioned effects associated with their sedative predecessors.
What is benzodiazepines?
High concentrations of ___________ receptors are found in the limbic system, an area of the brain where personal feelings and emotional memories are generated and stored.
What is GABA or gamma-aminobutyric acid?
Family, friends, co-workers, employment, self-esteam, education, and mental and emotional stability.
What are things affected by addiction?
Fentanyl, morphine sulfate extended-release capsules, buprenorphine transdermal system, hydromorphone, methadone hydrochloride tablets, hydrocodone, methadone, morphine, tapentadol extended-release oral tablets, oxycodone, hydrocodone.
What are the names of opioids?
Have increased alertness, enlarge capillaries in the brain for increased blood flow, used to treat migraines, headaches, and drowsiness.
What is caffine
Amobarbital, Mephobarbital, Pentobarbital, Phenobarbital, and Thiopental
What are Barbituates?
is in charge of all the functions our body needs to stay alive—breathing, moving blood, and digesting food. It also links the brain with the spinal cord, which runs down the back and moves muscles and limbs. It also lets the brain know what’s happening to the body.
What is the brain stem?
is a person's diminished response to a drug, which occurs when the drug is used repeatedly and the body adapts to the continued presence of the drug.
What is tollerance?
Over 33,000 deaths a year.
What is the number of people who die from opioid use and abuse?
Is Highly addictive, can cause agitation and increased heart rate, can increase respiration and body temperature, can cause anxiety and paranoia, and high doses can cause convulsions, cardiovascular collapse, stroke or death.
What is Methamphetamine?
Barbiturates are a class of drugs derived from barbituric acid that act as depressants to the central nervous system. These drugs are used as sedatives or anesthetics and have the potential to become addictive. They're problematic because there is no good treatment to reverse a barbiturate overdose.
links together a bunch of brain structures that control our emotional responses, such as feeling pleasure when we eat chocolate or kiss someone we love. The good feelings motivate us to repeat the behavior, which can be good because things like eating and love are critical to our lives. hint: the reward center is in this system.
What is the limbic system?
is a consistent pattern of distorted thinking errors that result in irresponsible and arrestable behavior. One of the most common errors in thinking is the failure to consider the injury to others. As a general rule, criminal thinkers do not consider the effect of their actions on others.
What is criminal thinking?
What is morphine?
Tolerance to ______________ effects develops rapidly, causing users to take higher and higher doses. Taking high doses of this drug or prolonged use, such as binging, usually causes paranoia.
What is Cocaine?
Sedatives work by modifying certain nerve communications in your central nervous system (CNS) to your brain. In this case, they relax the body by slowing down brain activity. Specifically, sedatives make the neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid ( GABA ) work overtime.
What are the effects of Sedatives?
is the mushroom-shaped outer part of the brain (the gray matter). In humans, it is so big that it makes up about three-fourths of the entire brain. It’s divided into four areas, called lobes, which control specific functions. Some areas process information from our senses, allowing us to see, feel, hear, and taste. The front part of the cortex, known as the frontal cortex or forebrain, is the thinking center. It powers our ability to think, plan, solve problems, and make decisions.
Blames others for situations you usually created for yourself. You make excuses and point your finger at others, claiming you were the one who was really wronged. You try to justify your behavior.
What is Victim Stance?