Dopamine
Chapter 4 (Substance Use Disorders and Addiction Counseling)
Chapter 2 (Treatment Strategies for Substance and Process Addictions)
Chapter 3 and 4 (Treatment Strategies for Substance and Process Addictions)
Chapter 5 and 6 (Treatment Strategies for Substance and Process Addictions)
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Dopamine mediates what? 

What is it acts as a learning signal, mediating pleasure, motivation, and movement.

100

What describes counselors playing a significant role in helping clients obtain appropriate treatment for substance use, involving information gathering, assessment, referral, prevention and education, and tracking and follow-up? 

What is Facilitative Gatekeeper? 

100

What class of substance is alcohol? 

What is a depressant? 

100

What is the second leading cause of death worldwide? 

What is Nicotine? 

100

In a nonsmoked form, this is referred to as speed, meth, and/or chalk.  In a smoked form, this is referred to as ice, crystal, crank, and/or glass. 

What is methamphetamine? 

200

What does Dr. Anna Lembke say about dopamine regulation in the brain? 

What is the same area of the brain that mediates pleasure also mediates pain and when there is a lot of pleasure, as we come down from that, we must learn to regulate through the lack of pleasure--it is essential but difficult. 

200

How is Motivational Interviewing defined? 

What is--a collaborative, person-centered counseling approach designed to help people explore and strengthen their own motivation for change. It is essentially a conversational method that helps people discover and build their own motivation to make positive changes by exploring their goals, values, and ambivalence in a supportive, nonjudgmental way? 


200

What is described as "heavy, episodic drinking, refers to consuming five (four for women) or more drinks in a 2-hour period.  

What is Binge Drinking? 

200

What are forms of tobacco? What in tobacco leads to addictions? 

-Cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, and chewing tobacco.  

-Nicotine in tobacco leads to addiction in long-term users. 

200

What does methamphetamine primarily affect in the brain? 

What are the catecholamines (dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine).  Serotonin is affected also. 

300

What often produces dopamine surges that are much larger or more rapid than natural rewards. 

 What are addictive substances and behaviors

300

A Severe SUD consists of how many symptoms out of the 11 as stipulated by the DSM-5-TR? 

What is 6 or more symptoms?

300

What is a medication prescribed/used to help eliminate alcohol consumption by causing severe nausea if a person were to drink alcohol? 

What is Disulfiram (Antabuse) 

300

What the following identified risk factors for Nicotine Addiction? 

What is parents who smoke; friends who smoke; heredity; mental illness; alcohol and substance abuse. 

300

What is a common way to describe meth use?

What is a "binge and crash" (where effects of the meth high start to disappear even below blood levels drop--often causing a motivation to go on a form of binging insofar as keeping the high--this is called a "run"). 

400

When something rewarding happens, the brain releases dopamine in what pathway 

What is the mesolimbic reward system

400

What is a reason why assessing adolescent substance use can be difficult, and what can counselors do to assist in this assessment? 

What is--it can be hard to differentiate between normal adolescent behavior.  Counselors can ask 10 questions (on page 91) to better assess adolescent substance use.  

400

What is a treatment modality through a mutual self-help format that was created in 1935 and has millions of members used to help individuals to stop drinking--and is based on 12-steps. 

What is Alcoholics Anonymous? 

400

Increases in this may lead to a higher rate of addiction for marijuana users? 

What is THC? (the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana) 

400

What is the most common occurrence of prescription drug abuse? 

What is with pain relivers, sedatives, and stimulants?

500

Why do people keep using despite negative consequences?


What is --over time, repeated dopamine surges cause the brain to adapt in three ways: 

  1. The brain becomes less sensitive to dopamine.
  2. Everyday activities feel less rewarding.
  3. Cravings become stronger because cues associated with the drug or behavior trigger dopamine-related learning.

(which leads to a person wanting the substance intensely even when it no longer feels as pleasurable AND continuing using despite knowing it's harmful)

500

What assessment for substance use has both an adult and adolescent version, as well as a defensiveness scale (and is widely used!)

SASSI-4

500

What describes a comprehensive, multi-format evidence-based program for alcohol and drug addiction that covers six key clinical areas (i.e., individual/conjoint therapy, early recovery, relapse prevention, family education, social support, and urine testing.  

What is the Matrix Model?

500

What are the 5 stages of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM)--also referred to as stages of change? 

What are the following: precontemplation, contemplation, determination, action, and maintenance? 

500

What are the benefits to using medications to treat opioid abuse and addiction, such as Methadone and Suboxone? 

What are to minimize cravings, to ease withdrawal, and to stabilize dependency? 

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