Definitions and Terms
These drugs include alcohol and other chemicals, substances, and medicines that change a person’s mood or feeling.
What are mood altering drugs or psychoactive drugs
Often described as an unconscious process, meaning that people are not intentionally lying, and they are not always aware that what they believe is not true.
What is denial?
Naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons (which make up nerves).
what are neurotransmitters
This term is typically the opposite of the effect produced by the drug
What is withdrawal symptom
This is the action that a drug has on a person shortly after it has been taken
What is primary drug effect
This is a term used to describe severe problems related to the compulsive and habitual use of mood-altering substances.
This condition refers to how addiction is not a symptom of another another problem or disorder, like anxiety or depression.
What is primary condition
When people feel alert and normal with sufficient energy their neurotransmitter levels are said to be this
What is naturally balanced
This term describes when the person again starts using the drug (even in small or moderate doses), the individual may experience the same extreme reaction as experienced with the very high dose
What is reverse tolerance
This term can include feeling overstimulated and paranoid, feeling overconfident, having confusing thoughts, and feeling unable to handle the tremendous overload of sights, sounds, and feelings
What is secondary drug effect
These are the three major types of mood-altering drugs
What are stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens
This refers to how addiction does not get better over time unless someone gets treatment.
Progression
The neurotransmitters levels are said to be this if a person is feeling depressed, sad, and/or lack energy
What is depleted or lower than normal
When the primary and secondary drugs have very similar drug effects, they are called this term
What is cross tolerant
What is after extended periods of use
The primary guide used by health care professionals for the diagnosis of substance use disorders.
What is the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders )
This refers to how someone will use $100 worth of a drug instead of the $50 they planned on using
What is poor control over amount
This term describes what happens when a person uses alcohol or another drug over a long period of time. The cells in the body become used to the substance and adapt to its presence.
Physically dependent
If a person develops physical dependence to alcohol or another drug, and continues to use the substance, he or she will likely develop what?
What it primary effect
The use of mood-altering drugs that interferes with or has a negative effect on a person’s life. People with this can experience problems including physical illness; legal issues; divorce or other family problems; worsening of mental health symptoms; negative consequences at work, home, or school; and many more.
What is substance use disorder
This refers to how people in active addiction have little control over their ability to cut down or stop their substance use
What is poor control over use
Neurotransmitters carry different kinds of messages, and they work with different nerve systems that are vital for these three things?
What are thinking, feeling, and behavior
Some people use this in place of their primary drug
What is secondary drug
Insomnia, hallucinations, lack of energy, nervousness and agitation are part of what effect?
What is second affect