Drugs of addiction
Rehabilitation
Symptoms
Causes
PAWS
100
A persistent, habitual use of alcohol
What is Alcoholism or alcohol addiction?





100
Advice or guidance, especially as solicited from a knowledgeable person
What is Counseling or therapy?
100
Changes in appetite or sleep patterns
What is sudden weight loss or weight gain?
100
Something you can inherit which may cause you to be more vulnerable to the addictive properties of drugs
What are genes?
100

 When that substance is removed, periods of mania or depression can occur for no apparent reason while the brain rebalances itself

What are mood swings?
200
The most commonly consumed psychoactive substance on earth
What is Caffeine?
200
A set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems
What is a twelve-step program?
200
Unusual smells on breath, body, or clothing
What is change in B.O?
200
The home, neighbourhood or community where people live, go to school or work can influence whether or not they develop substance use problems
What is an Environment?
200

a hyperexcitability, anxiety-prone state that occurs when alcohol and certain drugs of abuse are stopped.

What is anxiety?
300
A class of drugs that mimic the effects of adrenaline 
What are amphetamines?
300
A method of investigation of the mind and the way one thinks
What is a Psychoanalytic Approach?
300
Happy, sad, excited, anxious, etc
What are extreme mood changes?
300
Having a substance use disorders as well as mental health disorders 
What are co-occurring disorders?
300

After the most intense physical withdrawal symptoms have subsided, the individual may feel physically healthy but continue experiencing negative psychological symptoms which make the return to drug use seem appealing.

What are cravings?
400

 Once attached to receptors in the brain, they send signals which block pain, slows breathing, and has a general calming, anti-depressing and euphoric effect.

What are opiates?
400
Identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, behavior, and emotional responses
What is Cognitive Behavioral therapy (CBT)?
400
Unexpectedly and extremely tired or energetic
What is a change in energy?
400
Immediate rewarding experience that makes a person truly "joyous" or "happy" in spirit
What is feeling good?
400

 characterized by a low mood, loneliness, lack of energy, and sleep problems. 

What is depression?
500
A synthetic, psychoactive drug with similarities to stimulant and hallucinogen that makes users feel energetic, euphoric, empathetic, and they may experience augmented sensory perception
What is Ecstas?
500

blocks the effects of alcohol and opiods in the brain helping to prevent cravings and relapse 

What is Vivitrol or Naltrexone?
500
New and unusual friends, odd cell-phone conversations
What are changes in social groups?
500
The emotional and physical strain caused by our response to pressure from the outside world
What is Stress?
500
inability to feel pleasure
what is anhedonia?
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