Drug and Alcohol Jeopardy

Brain

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What part of the brain develops last, at the age of 25?

Frontal Lobe (Prefrontal Cortex)

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What is dopamine?

Dopamine is the brain's feel-good chemicals. This is what motivates us, rewards us, and makes us feel pleasure when we do good things like eat, laugh, play sports, or achieve a goal. 

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What is a Neural Pathway?

When you repeat a behavior, your brain strengthens that pathway, making the behavior automatic. 

*same thing happens with drug use, the brain builds strong pathways that "remind" you to use. 

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What part of the brain is responsible for vision?

Occipital Lobe

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How is addiction created?

Dopamine flood

Strengthening neural pathways

Frontal lobe weakens

tolerance builds

withdrawals

-addiction happens-

Thinking Errors

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Scenario: Youth brags that he can quit using anytime he wants and that he doesn't really need treatment because he is "smarter than everyone else", and knows how to stop. What thinking error is this?

Grandiosity 

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Scenario: Youth was doing well staying away from substances, but when his old friends invited him to come out to the park, he gave in quickly after they told him, "come on, just one hit will they really know"? Even though the youth planned to stay sober, he only went so he wouldn't be teased. 

Suggestibility

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Scenario: When a staff member asked a youth why they relapsed, he responded, "stuff happened, and then things got bad". The youth avoided giving any clear details, leaving staff unsure about what actually happened or when. 

Vagueness 

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Scenario: A youth tells his parents, staff at school, and staff at the program that he is serious about graduating high school and staying out of trouble. However, later that he was overheard talking to his proctor brother about his plans to drop out and "live the street life."

Fragmented Personality

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Scenario: During a 1:1 with proctor parent, youth tells them, "you're the only one who really understand me. You're way better than the other proctor parent". Later that day, the youth tells the other proctor parent the same exact thing, hoping to get on their good side so they'll go easier on them when it comes to following rules and expectations in the home. 

Ingratiating

Skills

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Five Senses:

What are the five senses?

Taste, smell, hearing, feeling, and seeing. 

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Name Five:

Give two examples. 

Color, object, letters

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Counting Down or Back:

Why is this skill important during a trigger?

Name two.

1. Interrupts automatic reactions

2. Engages your brain

3. Slows down impulses

4. Brings control back to you

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STIC:

What does this stand for?

Stop

Take a Breath

Image Future Consequences

Choose

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Deep Breathing:

What is the purpose to take three breaths?

1. Pausing/making yourself aware (calms the brain and body)

2. Calm down mental state (creates a pause before acting)

3. Calms down the body (increasing oxygen and focus)

TV/Movies

2

In what tv show is the character obsessed and craves Eggo Waffles?

Stranger Things

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What Tv show is about teens spending time in the basement "smoking" demonstrating how peer pressure influences substance use. 

That 70 Show

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What character eats spinach to get strong, often compared to "dope" or using substances for instant power. 

Popeye

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What character is always drinking and making irrational decisions with his grandson?

Rick

Rick and Morty

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What character is constantly drinking at Moe's Tavern?

The Simpsons, Homer

Random

2

What is the difference between sympathy and empathy?

Sympathy- Feeling for someone.

Statement, "at least". 

Empathy- Feeling with someone.

Statement, "I have been there, I know how you feel". 

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What is the difference between responding and reacting?

Responding- taking time to process the feeling and choosing how to respond. 

Reaction- Impulsively and immediately acting because of an internal or external feeling. 

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What is the difference between physical and mental power?

Mental power- the ability to choose, the ability to stay calm, focus, and make good choices even under stress.

Physical power- strength of the body, the agility to lift, push or move things physically. 

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What was the poem, "the perfect high" about?

He tries drugs, alcohol, and all kinds of substances, but nothing truly satisfies him. Eventually, he climbs a mountain to ask a wise guru what the real perfect high is.

The guru tells him:
-The perfect high isn’t found in any drug or outside substance.
-The only real high is when you conquer yourself — learning self-control, making good choices, and overcoming your own weaknesses.

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What is the difference between a trigger and withdrawal?

Trigger- A reminder of how the dopamine feels, that makes you want to use substances. 

Withdrawal- A physical and emotional symptom that your body feels when you stop using a substance after being dependent on it.