Mental health and addiction
Risk Factors
Recovery assistance
Recovery 4
Addiction and Health
200

True or False : Resilience is somebody's ability to recovery quickly from difficulties.

True

200

Things that increase a person's chances of developing substance abuse or dependency.

What are risk factors?



200

2 skills used to enhance recovery:

1. Meditation and exercise

2. Eating excessively and fight club

3. Talk it out with you drug dealer and or switching to a safer drug

Meditation and exercise

200

A strong desire. The inundating thought or emotion that feels like you're being pulled, equated with urges

What is craving

200

The major organ that is directly affected the most by drug use.

What is the brain?

400

Drugs change the brain's:

A) Structure

B) Function

C) Both

C) Both

400

Name 3 risk factors for addiction.

Genetics, environment, early age,  stress/trauma, and mental health hx..

400

Meaning of the acronym MAT

What is Medication Assisted Treatment

400

Give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something. Examples: making excuses for someone else, giving them money, calling in sick for them.

What is enabling or codependent behaviors

400

The brain finishes developing once you reach this age.

What is 25?

600

Feelings of worry, racing thoughts and restlessness

What is anxiety

600

These are things that can decrease a person's chance of developing an addiction?

What are abstinence, drug education and developing healthy coping skills

600

Refraining from all mood altering substances.

What is sobriety/abstinence?

600

The process by which the body rids itself of drugs

What is detox/withdrawal?

600

Mouth, Liver, Throat, Lungs, Skin, Kidney, Bladder, Heart, and Brain

What are parts of the body that can be affected by drug use?

800

Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or thoughts of hopelessness, and excessive sleep

What is depression

800

The younger people use substances, the less chance they have at becoming addicted. True or false?

What is False. The younger one begins using the more chance they have at becoming addicted.

800

The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness, something you often do at the end of group

What is gratitude

800

Is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction

What is dopamine

800

Hepatitis, Heart Disease, Kidney disease, Obesity, Mental Health disorders, HIV, Cancer, a Stroke, etc.

What are illnesses that can result from drug use?

1000

An evidenced based technique proven affective for managing depression:

A. hula hooping

B. Ruminating

c. Fight Club

D. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

D. CBT

1000

Name these three common 'gateway' drugs?

What is Alcohol, marijuana, nicotine

1000

A special person that helps you work through the Steps in a mutual recovery group and keeps you accountability in your recovery?

What is a sponsor?

1000

Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information; important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in

What is a relapse prevention plan

1000

Alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine, inhalants, PCP and hallucinogens can result in this medical condition related to withdrawal and drug toxicity.

What is Seizures?

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