Addiction
You can go to one of these to be with others in recovery. This can help you to remember that you can get through this. Get other people’s names and numbers to call in case of future cravings and urges.
What are support groups?
This actor/comedian who lived in the bay area struggled with addiction and substance abuse. He committed suicide in 2014.
Who is Robin Williams?
Behaviors characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or 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?
A major symptom when a cocaine abuser enters withdrawal.
What is Anxiety?
The major organ that is directly effected the most by drug use.
What is the brain?
This type of addiction is when the BODY itself feels a direct need for a drug.
What is Physical Dependency?
DAILY DOUBLE
The singer songwriter of Piano Man struggled with alcohol abuse for years before entering rehab.
Who is Billy Joel?
feelings that cause your brain to crave substances; if you are unaware of them they could be a factor for relapse.
What are triggers?
Complete abstinence, drug education and healthy coping skills
What are things that can decrease a person's chance of developing an addiction?
The brain finishes developing once you reach this age.
What is 25?
This type of addiction is when the MIND sends the body a message that it needs more of a drug.
What is Psychological Dependency?
This author, who wrote books such as Carrie and The Green Mile struggled with alcohol and prescription drug addiction for years.
Who is Stephen King?
The need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. In other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is tolerance?
DAILY DOUBLE
They say relapse doesn't suddenly happen out of nowhere. It is not an event but is often much more gradual
What is a process?
Hepatitis, Heart Disease, Kidney disease, Obesity, Mental Health disorders, HIV, Cancer, a Stroke, etc.
What are illnesses that can result from drug use?
a powerful desire to use substances often perceived as "impulsive" and "uncontrollable"
What is a craving?
This Marvel actor has struggled with alcoholism over the years.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
Daily Double!
A neurotransmitter in the brain that is triggered by substances and causes a repeat in behaviors?
What is dopamine?
Every bad choice we make can mean we have to face these later. Addiction can cause people to foolishly ignore these repeatedly.
What are consequences?
This substance depresses central nervous system (CNS) and respiratory function. Exposure to it may be fatal. It is estimated to be 80 times as potent as morphine and hundreds of times more potent than heroin
What is fentanyl?
DAILY DOUBLE
You may have gone backwards a little bit but did not completely relapse
What is a Slip/Lapse/Setback?
This music artist had a hit pop song come out a few years before her death called 'Rehab'
Who is Amy Winehouse
Negative, incorrect beliefs, stereotypes, and labels are another name for this
What is Stigma?
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.
DAILY DOUBLE
When you have both a Mental Health illness and addiction of any kind.
What is a co-occurring disorder or dual diagnosis?