Addiction Cycle
This feeling often starts the addiction cycle and can trigger substance use.
What is stress, boredom, loneliness, anger, or another trigger?
This organ is most affected by addiction.
What is the brain?
This is the brain's ability to change and form new connections.
What is neuroplasticity?
This model says addiction changes the brain and affects decision making.
What is the Disease Model?
Name one protective factor that reduces risk of addiction.
Positive relationships, employment, faith, education, recovery support, goals, stable housing.
Name the stage where a person uses more of a substance to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
This part of the brain helps with decision-making and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
True or False: Recovery allows the brain to heal and create healthier pathways.
What is True?
This model emphasizes personal decisions and responsibility
What is the Choice Model?
Name one risk factor for addiction
Trauma, stress, family substance use, peer pressure, mental health issues, availability.
This stage occurs when the person experiences uncomfortable symptoms after stopping use.
What is withdrawal?
Addiction can weaken this ability, making it harder to resist urges.
What is self-control or impulse control?
Name one activity that strengthens healthy brain pathways.
Exercise, recovery meetings, learning, meditation, positive relationships, journaling, healthy hobbies
This factor includes genetics and hereditary risk
What is the Disease Model?
What does relapse teach us about recovery?
What is that recovery is a process and setbacks provide learning opportunities?
In the addiction cycle, cravings often become stronger when a person encounters these reminders.
What are triggers?
Repeated behaviors create these pathways in the brain.
What are neural pathways?
Every time someone chooses recovery over substance use, they strengthen this.
What is a healthy neural pathway?
Peer pressure, stress, trauma, and availability of substances fall under this category.
What are environmental influences?
This recovery skill involves paying attention to the present moment without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
Put these in order: Craving, Consequences, Use, Trigger
What is: Trigger → Craving → Use → Consequences?
The phrase "neurons that fire together, wire together" describes this process.
What is neuroplasticity?
Why is consistency important in recovery?
What is because repeated healthy behaviors strengthen new brain pathways?
Finish this statement: "Recovery is not about being perfect, it is about ______."
Progress.
A person walks past a place where they used to buy drugs and suddenly experiences strong cravings, even after months of sobriety. What brain science concept explains why this happens?
What are triggers, cues, or conditioned responses?