Addiction
Basics
Basics
This develops as a person needs more of a substance to feel the same effect.
Tolerance
This is the most common substance abused in the United States and worldwide.
Alcohol
This is considered a brief or one-time return to use but is not a full relapse.
Lapse or Slip
The organ most affected by heavy alcohol use.
Liver
Since 1990, drug overdose deaths have increased by more than 500%. This increase in mortality is primarily due to what class of drug?
Opioids
These consist of people, places, things, or emotions that increase the urge to use substances.
Triggers
This stimulant is usually smoked and is known to be one of the hardest to detox from.
Nicotine
These are dreams that occur during the recovery process that are often vivid in nature and frequently involve a relapse scenario.
Using Dreams
This is a broad class of drugs that increases the activity of the central nervous system.
Stimulants
From biblical to modern times, this substance has been the most consumed intoxicant worldwide.
Alcohol
This is the process of removing toxic substances from the body, typically as a first step in addiction treatment.
Detoxification
The most popular stimulant in the world.
Caffeine
This is the term for attending a meeting every day for 3 months during early recovery.
90-in-90
This life-threatening medical emergency involves symptoms such as slowed or stopped breathing, unconsciousness, vomiting, seizures, pale or clammy skin, pinpoint pupils, and blue or gray lips or fingernails.
Overdose
This U.S. president's administration, in the 1980s, emphasized a tough-on-crime approach which led to mass incarceration due to drug-related offenses.
Ronald Reagan
This develops as a person’s brain and body begin to rely on a substance in order to function.
Dependence
Withdrawing from these two substances pose the most significant risk of death.
Benzodiazepines and Alcohol
This is a behavior that supports or allows an addicted individual to continue their addictive patterns by minimizing consequences or facilitating access to the substance or behavior.
Enabling
Many drugs cause this feeling of intense excitement or happiness.
Euphoria
This person founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
Bill W.
***Daily Double*** Addiction may start by doing this as an attempt to cope with mental health symptoms.
Self-Medicate
This class of drug mimics natural neurotransmitters known as endorphins.
Opioids
This is when one addiction is replaced with another.
Cross-addiction or Drug Switching
Smoking greatly increases the risk of developing this type of disease that damages a person’s ability to breathe.
Lung Disease (COPD and Lung Cancer)
This U.S. president declared drug abuse “public enemy number one”, created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and initiated the modern War on Drugs in 1971.
Richard Nixon