Causes
The reason some people may inherit a vulnerability to addiction
What is Genetic Factors?
Making broad interpretations from a single or a few events.
Example: "I felt awkward during my job interview. I am so awkward."
What is Overgeneralization
Name 3 negative coping skills.
What is substance abuse, withdraw/isolation, fighting, bottling feelings up, and many more
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
The home, neighborhood or community where people live, go to school or work can influence whether or not they develop substance use problems
What is an Environment?
Thinking in absolutes by saying things like "always, never, every."
What is All-or-nothing thinking
Taking your mind off the problem for a while is this type of coping skill
What are Distractions?
1) The user 2) Family 3) Children 4) Co-workers 5) Parents 6) Siblings 7) Friends 8) Community
What is who is affected by substance abuse?
This recovery network was established in the 1940s and started in California. It asserts that its therapeutic value for aiding people in recovery is that the program is based on people helping people.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
The reason many start using
What is peer pressure
Taking things personally when they’re not connected to or caused by you at all.
What is Personalization?
Name 3 positive coping skills.
What is exercise, art activities, talking to a friend, participating in leisure, and many more!
True or false women are more likely to start using in high school.
What is false.. both genders are equally likely to start using in high school
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
More than half of people with substance use disorders also have this
What are Mental health issues?
Thinking of negatives only
What is Discounting the Positive?
The proper way to breathe is not with your chest but with your.....?
Diaphragm
1) Lowered inhibitions 2) Decreased control over motor skills 3) Inability to concentrate and focus 4) Addiction 5) Heart attack; stroke 6) Liver failure; cirrhosis 7) Kidney disease 8) Blackouts
What are the consequences of alcoholism?
Psychologist Milton Erickson asked an alcohol user struggling with sobriety to contemplate this plant, which subsequently caused the alcohol user to gain and maintain his sobriety.
What is a cactus? "could go for three years without water and not die"
The emotional and physical strain caused by our response to pressure from the outside world
What is Stress?
You let your feelings guide your interpretation of reality.
What is Emotional Reasoning
Meditation and yoga is this type of coping skill
What is Mindfulness?
-Increase in violence and aggression -Drug-induced psychosis -Increase in Respiratory problems -Risk for HIV, HEP C and TB -Damage to physical appearance
What are the consequences of Methamphetamine/cocaine addiction?
The most commonly abused drug across the nation
What is Marijuana?