Risk Factors
What are risk factors?
Things that increase a person's chances of developing substance abuse or dependency.
Seeing only the worst possible outcomes of a situation.
Catastrophizing
Class of drug that decreases activity level, heart rate, blood pressure, impairs motor functioning, creates difficulty concentrating, and slurred speech.
Depressant
A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique
What is mindfulness?
This famous rock star died officially of heart failure, but after his death reportedly was found to contain high dosages of, among other things, the opiates Dilaudid, Percodan, and Demerol, as well as Quaaludes and codeine.
Name 5 risk factors for addiction.
Genetics, environment, early age, stress/trauma, and mental health history
Interpreting the meaning of a situation with little or no evidence.
Jumping to Conclusions
Class of drug that increases heart rate, blood pressure, dilated pupils, and an increase in activity level.
Stimulant
The practice of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress
What is self-care?
This music artist had a hit pop song come out a few years before her death called 'Rehab'
Amy Whinehouse
What are things that can decrease a person's chance of developing an addiction?
complete abstinence, drug education and healthy coping skills
The belief that one is responsible for events outside of their own control.
Personalization
Class of drug that causes drowsiness, constipation, euphoria, nausea, vomiting, and slowed breathing. Typically used as a pain medicine.
Opioid
Doing or thinking about something different when you feel yourself being triggered to use substances
What is Opposite Action?
This film follows the lives of four New Yorkers through their addiction.
Requiem for a Dream
True or False: Addiction is usually progressive and continues to worsen over time.
True: Addiction ranges from "pre-addiction" to the advanced stages of dependence.
Making broad interpretations from a single or few events.
Overgeneralization
Name 3 specific areas of the body that can be affected by drug use
Mouth, Liver, Throat, Lungs, Skin, Kidney, Bladder, Heart, Brain
A simple technique to help manage emotions and create a state of relaxation, uses the 4-4-6 count .
Deep Breathing
This singer/songwriter experienced a 20-year drug and alcohol addiction that he said saw him spending about $16,000 a week on heroin in the 1970s.
Eric Clapton
True or false: Whether physical and/or psychological, addiction can be addressed and treated.
True: initial goals are to discontinue drug use and improve a person's ability to function which can reverse some physical conditions.
The expectation that a situation will turn out badly without adequate evidence.
Fortune Telling
What are the four classes of drugs?
Stimulants, Depressants, Opioids (Painkillers), Hallucinogens
Using your five senses to create a relaxing environment or situation
What is imagery?
This child star first was forced into rehab at age 13, and a mental institution for a year and a half after that. She was emancipated from her parents and declared an adult at age 14. She worked hard and stayed sober once she was away from her family.
Drew Barrymore