Definitions
What is a substance use disorder?
The use of mood-altering drugs that interferes with or has a negative effect on a person’s life.
What is Neurotransmitters?
Naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons (which make up nerves).
What is drug switching?
People addicted to one drug may begin to use another drug—even if it has a completely different effect—when their primary drug is unavailable.
What animated family from Bedrock became TV’s first prime‑time animated series?
The flinstones
It's the title of a Black Sabbath song, or, a Robert Downey Jr. movie.
Iron Man
What is addiction?
A primary, chronic, and progressive condition with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and outcome. It involves compulsion, loss of control, continued use despite negative consequences, and other symptoms.
What happens when a person uses alcohol or a certain drug over a long period of time.
What is this called?
The cells in the body become used to the substance and adapt to its presence.
Physical Dependence
True or False:
During the upper-down cycle people usually don't consume larger amounts?
False
the individual may not feel very intoxicated and can consume very large amounts of both drugs. In this upper-downer cycle, people can consume far more stimulant and depressant than they could if they consumed either drug alone.
What drama about a blended family in a house with a famous staircase is a modern family classic?
In 2023, she spilled her guts on her second album.
Olivia Rodrigo
Is addiction progressive?
Addiction gets worse, not better, over time.
True or False:
Withdrawal symptoms are typically the oppo site of the effect produced by the drug.
True
What is a primary effect?
Action that a drug has on a person shortly after it has been taken.
What 1960s show about a sheriff and his son in Mayberry is famous for its whistling theme song?
Andy Griffith Show
This actress said, "In the first Harry Potter film, if you watch carefully in some scenes, you can see me mouthing Harry and Ron's lines."
Emma Watson
True or False:
Addiction does not cause medical or physical problems.
False
Untreated addiction causes increasingly worse physical, emotional, and social problems, and untreated addiction can eventually kill you.
What is tolerance?
tolerance is the process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect; therefore, greater amounts of the drug must be used to get the same effect.
What is a secondary effect?
Action that a drug has on a person after a long period of use.
Peter Capaldi replaced Matt Smith as the Time Lord on this British TV series.
Doctor Who
She sorts her songs based on the pens used to write them: fountain, quill or glitter gel; You Need To Calm Down is glitter gel
Taylor Swift
True or False:
Addiction involves preoccupation or obsession.
True
People who are addicted often experience preoccupation or obsession with alcohol or other drugs.
What is the difference between reverse tolerance and cross tolerance?
Reverse tolerance is a situation in which the body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug.
Cross tolerance occurs when a person’s primary and secondary drugs have very similar drug effects.
Name something you are taking away from this chapter you did not previously know...
No wrong answers :)
This sitcom about two cousins living in Chicago featured the theme song “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now.”
Perfect Strangers
The license plate ECTO-1 appears in movies featuring this title team.
The Ghostbusters