Dopamine
What is it acts as a learning signal, mediating pleasure, motivation, and movement.
What describes counselors playing a significant role in helping clients obtain appropriate treatment for substance use, involving information gathering, assessment, referral, prevention and education, and tracking and follow-up?
What is Facilitative Gatekeeper?
What class of substance is alcohol?
What is a depressant?
What is the second leading cause of death worldwide?
What is Nicotine?
In a nonsmoked form, this is referred to as speed, meth, and/or chalk. In a smoked form, this is referred to as ice, crystal, crank, and/or glass.
What is methamphetamine?
What does Dr. Anna Lembke say about dopamine regulation in the brain?
What is the same area of the brain that mediates pleasure also mediates pain and when there is a lot of pleasure, as we come down from that, we must learn to regulate through the lack of pleasure--it is essential but difficult.
How is Motivational Interviewing defined?
What is--a collaborative, person-centered counseling approach designed to help people explore and strengthen their own motivation for change. It is essentially a conversational method that helps people discover and build their own motivation to make positive changes by exploring their goals, values, and ambivalence in a supportive, nonjudgmental way?
What is described as "heavy, episodic drinking, refers to consuming five (four for women) or more drinks in a 2-hour period.
What is Binge Drinking?
What are forms of tobacco? What in tobacco leads to addictions?
-Cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, and chewing tobacco.
-Nicotine in tobacco leads to addiction in long-term users.
What does methamphetamine primarily affect in the brain?
What are the catecholamines (dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine). Serotonin is affected also.
What often produces dopamine surges that are much larger or more rapid than natural rewards.
What are addictive substances and behaviors
A Severe SUD consists of how many symptoms out of the 11 as stipulated by the DSM-5-TR?
What is 6 or more symptoms?
What is a medication prescribed/used to help eliminate alcohol consumption by causing severe nausea if a person were to drink alcohol?
What is Disulfiram (Antabuse)
What the following identified risk factors for Nicotine Addiction?
What is parents who smoke; friends who smoke; heredity; mental illness; alcohol and substance abuse.
What is a common way to describe meth use?
What is a "binge and crash" (where effects of the meth high start to disappear even below blood levels drop--often causing a motivation to go on a form of binging insofar as keeping the high--this is called a "run").
When something rewarding happens, the brain releases dopamine in what pathway
What is the mesolimbic reward system
What is a reason why assessing adolescent substance use can be difficult, and what can counselors do to assist in this assessment?
What is--it can be hard to differentiate between normal adolescent behavior. Counselors can ask 10 questions (on page 91) to better assess adolescent substance use.
What is a treatment modality through a mutual self-help format that was created in 1935 and has millions of members used to help individuals to stop drinking--and is based on 12-steps.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Increases in this may lead to a higher rate of addiction for marijuana users?
What is THC? (the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana)
What is the most common occurrence of prescription drug abuse?
What is with pain relivers, sedatives, and stimulants?
Why do people keep using despite negative consequences?
What is --over time, repeated dopamine surges cause the brain to adapt in three ways:
(which leads to a person wanting the substance intensely even when it no longer feels as pleasurable AND continuing using despite knowing it's harmful)
What assessment for substance use has both an adult and adolescent version, as well as a defensiveness scale (and is widely used!)
SASSI-4
What describes a comprehensive, multi-format evidence-based program for alcohol and drug addiction that covers six key clinical areas (i.e., individual/conjoint therapy, early recovery, relapse prevention, family education, social support, and urine testing.
What is the Matrix Model?
What are the 5 stages of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM)--also referred to as stages of change?
What are the following: precontemplation, contemplation, determination, action, and maintenance?
What are the benefits to using medications to treat opioid abuse and addiction, such as Methadone and Suboxone?
What are to minimize cravings, to ease withdrawal, and to stabilize dependency?