What is it?
What is substance use disorder?
-dependence on an illegal/legal drug or medication
-alcohol and nicotine are legal but they are still considered drugs.
What is the most common substance abused by Americans?
In 2017, an estimated 14.5 million American adults age 12 and older battled an alcohol use disorder
What kind of drug is alcohol?
depressant
How do drugs work in the brain to produce pleasure?
Nearly all addictive drugs directly or indirectly target the brain’s reward system by flooding the circuit with dopamine
Approximately how many Americans have an addiction?
-According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 19.7 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2017
-In 2017, 8.5 million American adults suffered from both a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder, or co-occurring disorders
What is a disturbing fact about inhalants?
-More younger children abuse inhalants than older children
-Inhalants are legal, inexpensive and easy to get by anyone school age or older.
What is the difference between physical dependence, tolerance, and addiction?
-Physical dependence can occur with the regular (daily or almost daily) use of any substance, legal or illegal, even when taken as prescribed.
-Tolerance is the need to take higher doses of a drug to get the same effect.
-Addiction is a chronic disorder characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, despite negative consequences
What causes lead to substance addiction?
Genetic, environmental, and psychological causes
Which of these answers describes the BEST treatment option for addiction?
All of these may be used alone, or in any combination to treat addiction
Is drug use or misuse a voluntary behavior?
The initial decision to take drugs is generally voluntary. However, with continued use, a person’s ability to exert self-control can become seriously impaired. Brain imaging studies from people addicted to drugs show physical changes in areas of the brain that are critical for judgment, decision-making, learning, memory, and behavior control
What are the 3 causes of addiction?
One of the most severe psychological side effects of alcoholism is caused by a lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) in the brain. What is it called?
Korsakoff's psychosis
Korsakoff's psychosis was named after Sergei Korsakoff, a neuropsychiatrist. B1 deficiency leads to nerve damage, resulting in symptoms such as amnesia, apathy and confabulation (the replacement of a gap in a person's memory (often due to blackouts) by a falsification that they believe to be true).
Does relapse to drug use mean treatment has failed?
No. The chronic nature of addiction means that relapsing to drug use is not only possible but also likely. Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Lapses back to drug use indicate that treatment needs to be reinstated or adjusted, or that alternate treatment is needed. No single treatment is right for everyone
How many drug rehabs are there in the country?
there are roughly 15,000 drug and alcohol rehabs in the country
There were about 8,000 private non-profit facilities, 4,000 for-profit centers and more than 2,000 programs that were sponsored or run by various local, state, tribal and federal agencies. On the day they were surveyed, there were about 1.2 million Americans receiving some sort of addiction treatment services, with only about 85,000 clients under 18 and the rest were adults.
What are some long term affects of substance use?
-early onset of Alzheimer's
-schizophrenia
-hallucinating
-paranoia
-stomach issues