Vocabulary
treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain
circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences. People
engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences.
What is Addiction?
Medication used to reverse overdose
What is naloxone? (narcan)
An ___________ is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
What is an intervention
Often, it is assumed that physical dependence characterized by withdrawal symptoms
is required in order for someone to be diagnosed with an addiction disorder, but the fact is that _____ can
occur with all the negative consequences in a person’s life minus the physical issues .
What is a behavioral (proccess) addiction?
The reward pathway works to ensure that we will repeat behaviors which are necessary
for ______________
What is survival?
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial?
The use of medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
What is Medication Assisted Treatment?
the first measure designed specifically to assess signs of addictive-like eating behavior. T
What is the Yale Food Addiction Scale?
a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person’s own motivation and commitment to change.
What is motivational interviewing?
Biological factor that affects addiction
What is genetics?
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is Detox
A spiritual self help support group
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Problematic computer use is a growing social issue which is being debated worldwide.
What is internet addiction?
Modern imaging techniques enable researchers to observe drug actions and consequences as they occur and persist in the brains of abusing and addicted individuals.
What is MRI/PET scan?
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger
An approach intended to help family members of people with a substance use disorder learn how to steer their loved one away from substance abuse
What is CRAFT?
Symptoms when you quit , or cut back, on using alcohol or other drugs. You may have developed a physical or psychological dependence on a drug, or both.
What is withdrawal?
Combination of substance use disorders and mental health
What is dual diagnosis?
The pleasure chemical in the brain
What is dopamine?
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is Tolerance?
Creating a needle exchange or safe injection site is a form of _____________
What is harm reduction?
AN ATTRIBUTE,BEHAVIOR,OR CONDITION THAT IS SOCIALLY DISCREDITING
What is stigma?
Drugs interfere with the way neurons send, receive, and process signals via __________________
neurotransmitters