BOOTCAMP 101
True or False:
Human brain chemistry can be affected by psychoactive drugs, behavioral addictions, and mental illness to induce an altered state of consciousness.
What is True
Throughout the last 10,000 years, humans have used psychoactive drugs to alter their perception of reality for a variety of reasons.
A phrase first used more than 20 years ago to describe a phenomenon of relatively milder but persistently troublesome symptoms that lingered in individuals who had discontinued substances after 7-14 days.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
Overcoming addiction is a matter of willpower. You can stop using drugs if you really want.
What is Myth
Prolonged exposure to drugs alters the brain in ways that result in powerful cravings and a compulsion to use. These brain changes make quitting by sheer force of will extremely difficult.
Primary, chronic brain disease characterized by compulsive substance seeking and use despite cycles of relapse and remission
What is Addiction or Substance Use disorder
A chronic illness
What is Addiction (Substance Use Disorder)
True or False:
Dabbing is a form of concentrated marijuana, a high-potency THC slush that is heated and inhaled, giving a four-or five-hour high.
What is True
Sinsemilla cultivation techniques have made high-potency marijuana widely available, which has increased the compulsive liability and the need for treatment. Synthetic Cannabis appeared in the early 2000s. Dabbing is a more recent form of concentrated marijuana
True or False:
The road to alcoholism can take three months or 30 years—or it may never occur.
What is true
Addiction is a disease; there’s nothing that can be done about it.
What is Myth
Most experts agree that addiction is a disease that affects the brain, but that doesn’t mean anyone is helpless. The brain changes associated with addiction can be treated and reversed through therapy, medication, exercise, and other addiction treatment programs.
A strong urge to use unable to think of anything else difficult to resist use
What is a Craving
Pre-Contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, Relapse
What are the Stages of Change
True or False:
Training is required if buprenorphine is used to treat pain.
What is False
Physicians must complete special training to qualify to provide this service to clients. They are then certified to do so under the DEA registration number. No training is required if buprenorphine is simply used to treat pain.
The moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
What are Ethics
You can’t force someone into treatment; they have to want help.
What is Myth:
Treatment doesn’t have to be voluntary to be successful. People who are pressured into treatment by their family, employer, or the legal system are just as likely to benefit as those who choose to enter treatment on their own. As they sober up and their thinking clears, many formerly resistant addicts decide they want to change.
True or False: Assessment and Tx planning are one-time events
What is False
Reduce the Consequences of Use
What is the primary goal of Harm Reduction
True or False:
Addiction has fluctuated government policies, conceptualized new social structures, and hijacked community priorities
What is False:
Abuse and addiction have altered government policies, created new social structures, and hijacked personal priorities.
The conceptual system developed by a community or society to structure the way people view the world.
What is Culture
96,000+ people die from a drug overdose each year
Change processes that traditionally is associated with the experiential, cognitive, and psychoanalytical orientations
Encompasses organized non-residential services, which may be delivered in a wide variety of settings
What is 1.0 LOC (OP Tx)
True or False:
The discovery of brain chemicals (dopamine) that act like psychoactive drugs expanded the understanding of the process of addiction.
What is False
The discovery of brain chemicals (endorphins) that act like psychoactive drugs expanded the understanding of the process of addiction. The treatment of addiction became a medical as well as a social science.
Beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice
Almost half (46%) of all high school students currently use addictive substances.
What is fact
1. reduce negative consequences of drug use. 2. incorporate strategies for safer use to abstinence. 3. Meet the user where they are at.
What are the 3 goals of harm reduction
Reversible symptoms caused by specific substances that affect one or more mental functions
What is Intoxication