Addiction and the brain
Alcohol can produce detectable impairments in memory, the most severe of these are called ______, when you have no recollection of events.
What are blackouts?
Name the three states of mind
What are emotional, logical and wise mind
What is the smallest country in the world by land area?
Vatican City
What is the first step (AA/NA)
"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable."
Dopamine receptors decrease to try to regulate the flood of dopamine in your system from drug use, causing you to become less sensitive to dopamine.
What is tolerance?
The core things connected in the CBT triangle.
What are thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Who is Simba's dad?
Mufasa
What substance is considered the "gateway drug"
Although recent studies point to alcohol and/or tobacco as more appropriate for the term
MARIJUANA is widely known as the "gateway drug"
These are three neurotransmitters.
What are Dopamine, Seratonin, GABA, Adrenaline
Examples include labeling, mind reading, catastrophizing.
What are cognitive distortions
What vegetable was originally purple before selective breeding?
Carrots
T/F
It is important to get someone overdosing on Opioids into a cold shower
FALSE - It is important to first, call an ambulance and then administer Narcan if available.
Moderate drinking is defined as this many drinks per day for women ____, and this many for men ____.
What are 1 and 2 drinks per day?
A DBT skill to communicate what you want.
What is DEAR MAN skill?
What is the only letter not used in the periodic table symbols?
J
What president is considered responsible for starting the modern WAR ON DRUGS?
Richard Nixon
The cerebral cortex or gray matter is broken up into four lobes. This lobe is our thinking center, it powers our ability to think, plan, solve, problems, and make decisions.
What is the frontal cortex?
DEARMAN stands for
What is Describe, Express, Assert, Reinforce, Mindful, Appear confident, Negotiate
What food is the most stolen grocery item in the world?
Cheese
These two versions of the same substance carry different penalties under the law.
Powder cocaine and Crack Coccaine