Definitions
Any substance that modifies (by enhancing, inhibiting, or distorting) mind and/or body functioning.
Drug
What age category reports the most illicit drug use?
18-20
Refers to the need that a user may feel for continued use of a drug in order to experience its effects and/or relieve withdrawal symptoms.
Psychological dependence
Many factors can affect the way an individual responds to a drug, including the following
Dose, tolerance, potency
some people say you need to hit a ___________ before you take sobriety and addiction seriously.
Rock Bottom
Drug compounds (substances) that affect
the central nervous system and/or alter
consciousness and/or perceptions
Psychoactive drug
True or False: Females were more likely than males among persons age 12 or older to be current illicit drug users.
False
When does use lead to abuse?
The motive for taking the drug is the most important factor in determining presence of abuse.
Initial drug abuse symptoms include:
–Excessive use
–Constant preoccupation about the availability and supply of the drug
–Refusal to admit excessive use
–Reliance on the drug
It takes approximately ________minute for a drug to circulate throughout the body after it enters the bloodstream.
1 minute
trying to protect an addict from facing the consequences of their drug related problems
Enabling
is the unintentional or inappropriate use of prescribed or over-the-counter (OTC) types of drugs.
Drug Misuse
________ graduates (high school, college, postgraduate) graduates had the lowest rate of current use.
College graduates
$_____ is spent on prescription drugs in one year in the U.S
$176 billion in the U.S
Taking a drug thinking it will get you high though it does not is an example of the ________ effect.
Placebo effect
People who become overly concerned with another's addiction problem and feel driven to fix or control it
Codependent
is the willful misuse of either licit or illicit drugs for the purpose of recreation, perceived necessity, or convenience.
Drug Abuse
The alcohol industry spends more than __$________ billion dollars on yearly advertising.
$1 billion
$______ is spent on alcohol in a year.
$104 billion
It is often used interchangeably with dependence, either physiological or psychological in nature; other times, it is used synonymously with the term drug abuse.
Addiction
Who usually participates in an intervention (name at least three)
friends, family, co workers, interventionist, person w/ addiction.
Most commonly used illicit drug (lifetime use):
Marijauana
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) estimates that the typical
narcotic habit costs_________.
$100 a day.
4 principal factors that affect drug use are:
Pharmacological factors, cultural factors, social factors, contextual factors
A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently in a therapeutic session that share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process
one successful way to make the user aware of their problem is to give them
Direct examples and/or ultimatums.