Know Your terms
This describes having both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder in the same person.
What are co-occurring disorders?
addiction is also known clinically as this
What is a severe substance use disorder?
A person has alcohol addiction and an anxiety disorder. What is this situation called?
What are co-occurring disorders?
According to the curriculum, co-occurring disorders are this—not hopeless conditions.
What are treatable disorders?
Sadness or emptiness, limited interest or pleasure, sleep problems, low energy, and difficulty concentrating are common features of this disorder.
What is depression?
This is any chemical, substance, or medicine that changes a person's mood.
What is a mood-altering drug?
Addiction is described as this type of disorder because it is long-lasting.
What is chronic?
Name two other terms treatment programs may use to describe co-occurring disorders.
What are co-existing disorders, comorbid disorders, dual disorders, or dual diagnosis?
Treatment that addresses both disorders at the same time, in the same place, by the same people or team is called this.
What is integrated treatment?
Intense mood swings between depression and manic episodes characterize this disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
These are unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that repeatedly cause anxiety or discomfort.
What are obsessions?
Thinking about obtaining, using, or hiding drugs and planning when and where you will use is an example of this feature of addiction.
What is compulsion/preoccupation?
The curriculum says addiction and mental health disorders are this type of disease.
What are brain diseases?
If someone has both anxiety and alcohol addiction, treatment for each disorder should be this.
What is targeted treatment?
Restlessness, irritability, feeling on edge, muscle tension, difficulty concentrating, and insomnia may be symptoms of this.
What are anxiety disorders?
These are repetitive behaviors or mental acts someone feels driven to perform in response to an obsession
What are compulsions?
Using more than intended, being unable to stop or cut down, and losing control over behavior are examples of this feature.
What is loss of control?
If someone has an anxiety disorder and alcohol addiction, treating only the alcohol addiction leaves this untreated.
What is the anxiety disorder?
The curriculum compares chronic disorders to conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension because they are this.
What are long-lasting/chronic health problems?
Unwanted memories or images, nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance, emotional detachment, irritability, and being easily startled may occur with this disorder.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This occurs when someone perceives something through their senses that does not actually exist
What is a hallucination?
Continuing to use alcohol or drugs even though you know they are causing serious physical, psychological, or social problems is this feature of addiction.
What is continued use despite serious problems?
Why does the curriculum say the two disorders are “independent”?
Because each disorder has its own symptoms, predictable course, and treatment, and one disorder does not cause or create the other.
According to the curriculum, relapse should be viewed as this—not proof that someone has failed.
What is an indication that treatment and recovery need to be strengthened?
Delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking are key features of this category of disorder.
What are psychotic disorders?