Name 4 different negative effects that drug abuse may have on a person.
What is illness, legal trouble, broken relationships, loss of license, loss of job, jail time, treatment requirements, loss of material posessions
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Name 3 medical or physical problems that addiction may cause.
What is suicide, homicide, HIV/AIDS, Hep C, weakened immune system, crashes leaving us with physical ailments
100
Name 5 symptoms of withdrawal.
What is vomiting, fever, shaking/tremors, insomnia, sweating, foggy mind, headache, aching muscles/joints,
100
What are neurotransmitters?
What is naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons.
100
What biological aspects of our body does substances affect?
What is everything.
200
Chemicals, substances, and medicines that change a person's mood or feeling.
What is a mood-altering drug?
200
Explain what poor control over use means.
What is people are unable to control the amount of alcohol or other drugs that they drink or use, are unable to stop or cut down their substance use, or are unable to control their behavior while under the influence.
200
What is overdose?
What is a person is no longer receiving communication in their brain, systems are shutting down, a person is dying.
200
When there is an abnormally low amount of neurotransmitters in the brain, how may the person feel?
What is depressed, anxious, sad, no energy
200
What is drug switching?
What is People switch to another substance that has completely different effects when their primary substance is unavailable, or to relieve the effects of their original substance.
300
A primary, chronic, and disabling condition with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and outcome; involves compulsion, loss of control and continued use despite negative consequences.
What is addiction?
300
Addiction is progressive. What does this mean?
What is "The problem gets worse over time. It will never get better unless there is an intervention."
300
Name a primary drug effect of marijuana.
What is Relaxed state, slower reaction time
300
When a person has too many neurotransmitters in their brain, what may they feel like?
What is agitated, irritated, uptight, angry
400
What do I mean when I say that addiction is a primary condition?
What is "Addiction is not the symptom of another problem, such as anxiety, depression, disability, etc. Treating the psychological disorder does not mean that the addiction is treated and vise versa."
400
Name 3 things a person will do during their obsession or preoccupation with the substance of choice.
What is think about getting more of the substance, plan when and where they will next drink or use, think about hiding the substance use from others.
400
What is an example of drug switching?
What is Smoking weed after a stimulant (cocaine, meth) binge in order to bring themselves back down.
400
Please explain the process of how a person gets from casual drug/alcohol use to needing to use to feel normal.
What is The person's neurotransmitters gets excited during use, drops low in neurotransmitters while coming down/up from the drug and then goes back to baseline. The more this continues and the heavier the drug use, the time spent in the baseline is decreased and the amount of excitement is lower and the amount of low time is longer. The brain gets used to having the chemicals there to make them happy or sad so the brain stops producing them on their own. The person has to continue to use in order to feel normal.
400
Why do people die after one use after being in recovery?
What is Reverse tolerance. Their body is now extremely sensitive to a substance and the reaction is extreme. People often relapse and take the same amount as they were using during their heaviest use. The body can no longer take it.
500
If I began drinking a six pack every other night a year ago and now I drink a pint of vodka and a case of beer every day, what do I have?
What is tolerance
500
What percentage of felonies were related to alcohol alone?
What is 73%
500
What is a secondary drug effect?
What is an imbalance physically, emotionally, or socially due to prolonged substance use.
500
Narcan has what effects on the brain/what does Narcan do to a person?
What is Narcan reverses the effects of an excess amount of opioid receptors by knocking the opioid neurotransmitters off of the receptors in order to communication to continue in the brain.
500
Why is drinking alcohol and caffeine/energy drinks dangerous?
What is The stimulant and depressant work to balance each other out. Therefore, the person may not feel as intoxicated or high when taking depressants and stimulants together. This results in a person taking high amounts of both to achieve the same effect.