Addiction
This group is an international organization that helps people recover from alcohol addiction. It is a fellowship of peers who support each other through regular meetings
What is AA?
Regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time known for his roles in Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society, this funny man and actor famously struggled with mental health issues and addiction. He committed suicide in 2014
Who is Robin Williams?
This term refers to the return to substance use after a period of abstinence or reduced use
What is relapse?
This is a condition that can occur after someone stops using alcohol or drugs
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS)?
This major organ is directly effected most prevalently by drug use
What is the brain?
This group is an international mutual aid organization for people who have been impacted by another person's alcoholism
What is Al-Anon?
This singer/songwriter struggled with alcohol abuse for years before entering treatment, he also wrote Piano Man
Who is Billy Joel?
This term is used to describe behaviors characterized by repeated, compulsive seeking use of a substance despite consequences and a need for an increased amount of the substance as time goes on to achieve the same effect
What is addiction?
This is a term used to describe self-reflection and a commitment to promptly admitting when one is wrong in AA
What is 10 stepping?
Researchers and psychologists used to think the brain stopped developing at this age
What is 25?
Colloquially known as "downers", this type of drug lowers neurotransmission levels, decreases the electrical activity of brain cells, and reduces arousal or stimulation in various areas of the brain
What are depressants?
This prolific author, who wrote books such as Carrie and The Green Mile, struggled with alcohol and prescription drug addiction for decades until a family intervention in the 1980s.
Who is Stephen King?
This concept is characterized by a reduced reaction to a drug following its repeated use. Typically, increasing its dosage may re-amplify the drug's effects
What is tolerance?
Name two things that can decrease a person's chance of developing an addiction?
Complete abstinence, drug education, and healthy coping skills
This term is used when you have both mental health and addiction issues
What is a co-occurring disorder or dual diagnosis?
Cocaine and Methamphetamine are examples of this kind of drug
What are stimulants?
This famous actress, known for her roles in E.T., 50 First Dates and Charlie's Angels, became an addict at the tender age of 9-years-old. At age 13, she was forcibly sent to rehabilitation by her mother. She has been sober for many years now, and has her own talk show
Drew Barrymore
The process by which a poison or toxin is removed from the body. Generally, it is advised that this is a medically supervised treatment. This process is designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is detox?
The younger people use substances, the less chance they have at becoming addicted. True or false?
False. The younger one begins using the more chance they have at becoming addicted.
This liver disease is common amongst individuals who struggle with long-term, chronic alcoholism
What is cirrhosis?
A planned meeting to help a loved one with addiction seek treatment
What is an intervention?
This actress, who was most well known for playing Princess Leia, was very outspoken out about having Bipolar Disorder and being in recovery from cocaine and prescription drug abuse. She died of sudden cardiac arrest in 2016.
Who is Carrie Fisher?
This neurotransmitter in the brain is triggered by substance use, and is known to govern our brains perceptive of reward and pleasure. It is also what causes a repeat in addictive behaviors
What is dopamine?
This country has the highest rate of addiction in the world
What is Iran?
This liver condition and disease is common amongst IV drug users
What is Hepatitis C?