Definitions and Terms
This term is used to describe the use of mood-altering drugs that interfere with or negatively affect a person's life.
What is Substance Use Disorder?
This exercise helps individuals determine the severity of their substance use disorder.
What is the Self-Assessment Exercise?
Substance use disorders affect these natural chemicals in the brain.
What are Brain Chemicals?
The use of mood-altering drugs that mess up a person's life defines this disorder.
What is Substance Use Disorder?
True or False: Alcohol can only have negative effects on physical health.
What is False? (It affects both physical and mental health)
Mood-altering drugs are also known as this type of drug
What are Psychoactive Drugs?
One of the learner objectives for the Self-Assessment is to understand how these criteria apply to you.
What are Diagnostic Criteria for Addiction?
This part of the brain is often altered by addiction, affecting pleasure and reward systems.
What is the Limbic System?
This term refers to drugs that change a person’s mood or feeling.
What are Mood-Altering Drugs?
One major negative effect of drug use on personal life is seen in this area.
What is Work, Home, or School?
These are the three major types of mood-altering drugs.
What are Stimulants, Depressants, and Hallucinogens?
True or False: The self-assessment exercise asks you to honestly address the ways substance use has affected your life.
What is True?
The negative physical effects of substance use disorder are a key focus of this session.
What is Session 1 of the Living in Balance program?
Alcohol is categorized under this type of mood-altering drug.
What are Depressants?
These brain chemicals are often disrupted by alcohol and other drugs
What are Neurotransmitters?
This term describes the severe category of problems related to substance use.
What is Addiction?
This session encourages exploring the negative impacts of substances on you and those around you.
What is Session 1 of the Living in Balance program?
Understanding the effects of alcohol and drugs on brain chemicals helps in treating this.
What is Addiction?
An example of a stimulant, a type of mood-altering drug.
What is Cocaine?
Substance use disorder can negatively impact this, which involves a person’s mental and emotional state.
What is Psychological Health?
Alcohol falls into this category of mood-altering drugs.
What are Depressants?
Conducting an addiction self-assessment helps understand these effects of substance use.
What are Negative Effects on Your Life?
Addiction affects these biological processes in the body
What are Biological Processes?
A type of drug that alters perceptions and can cause hallucinations.
What are Hallucinogens?
The effects of alcohol and drugs on brain chemistry are a key topic in this part of Session 1.
What is Biological Aspects of Addiction?