Alcohol
Alcohol is a ____________. This means that it slows down activity in the brain.
Depressant
In 2015, over how many people went to the emergency room for cocaine overdoses?
600,000
Opioids work by blocking pain signals sent by your organs and other tissues to your brain. They do this by binding to special components called _______ found on the surfaces of some cells.
Receptors
What Are The Stages of a Relapse?
True or False: The “alcohol” in alcoholic beverages such as wine, beer, and spirits is actually ethanol, or ethyl alcohol. It’s the only type of alcohol that you can drink without causing serious damage to your body.
True
Alcohol has a wide variety of effects. In the brain, it triggers the release of ____________, a neurotransmitter that’s associated with pleasure and satisfaction.
Dopamine
Even if you don’t die from an overdose, you can experience permanent long-term health effects from cocaine use, including:
In 2019, nearly how many people in the United States died from opioid-involved overdoses?
50,000
How often does relapse occur? Looking for a percentage
Between 40% and 60% of addicts will inevitably relapse.
True or False: Everyone Has an Equal Risk of Becoming Addicted to Opioids
False: Certain individuals, especially patients between the ages of 12 and 18 years, are more susceptible to the addicting properties of opioids. In those people who are susceptible, which is up to 20 percent of this group, it may take as little as one dose to begin a path leading to addiction.
Alcohol is processed in the _________, where enzymes help break down ethanol into acetaldehyde and acetate.
Liver
The average cocaine high only lasts how long?
15 to 30 minutes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is how much a year? This includes the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.
$78.5 billion
What substance has the highest relapse rate?
Heroin; specifically is as high as 90 percent or greater.
True or False: Smoking is just a choice.
False: No.
AUD has a genetic component. Researchers estimate that genes account for approximately what percentage of the risk?
Half
The person using cocaine is re-dosing over a long period of time. This is known as a what?
Cocaine binge
Roughly ____ to ______ percent of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them.
21 to 29
What substance has the second highest relapse rate?
Alcohol
True or False: Only a handful of dangerous toxins can be found in tobacco smoke.
False: Actually, the number is closer to 250. Of these harmful chemicals, at least 70 of them have been proven to cause cancer, a list that includes arsenic, formaldehyde, nickel and chromium. The other 180, such as carbon monoxide, ammonia and hydrogen cyanide, are harmful to the human body in other ways.
Alcohol may be nearly as old as civilization. Residues from an alcoholic beverage that dates back to 7,000 to 6,600 B.C. have been found in what country?
China
What uncomfortable side effects do you have with cocaine?
Sweating, nausea, depression, and anxiety.
An estimated 4 to 6 percent who misuse prescription opioids transition to which drug?
Heroin
What is the number one cause of relapse?
High Levels of Stress.
True or False: More than 85% of individuals relapse and return to drug use within the year following treatment.
True