Drug Effects
Which drug can produce mixed effects of stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens?
Marijuana
This daily reading book often used in recovery programs provides short reflections for each day of the year.
Daily meditation book
_ is the pleasure chemical in the brain that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction.
Dopamine
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the US.
Nicotine
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is associated with which mental illness?
Which drug can stunt growth and cause reproductive problems?
Steroids
This manual is commonly used to diagnose Substance Use Disorders.
DSM-5?
Research is showing that the human brain does not really full development until what age?
25
_ is feeling bad about what you have done and _ is feeling bad about who you are as a person.
Guilt and Shame
Bi-polar disorder is defined by extreme emotional highs and lows. These highs and lows are called _ and _.
Mania and depression
Which drug can decrease motor skills, cause heart attack, stroke, liver failure, and kidney disease?
Alcohol
What year was the basic text published?
1983
After single use, it is possible for marijuana chemicals to be detected in drug screenings and to be seen in the brain for how long?
When mixed with alcohol this drug creates an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects and may result in dangerously low blood pressure.
Inhalants
Sleep difficulties, significant weight change, diminished concentration, and feelings of worthlessness are often signs of which mental illness?
Depression
Which drug can cause increase in violence and aggression, drug induced psychosis, and increase in cardiovascular problems?
Methamphetamines
Name the 5 main 12 step Meetings
AA, CA, GA, CA, Al-anon, NA-anon
Mood, memory processing, sleep, and cognition are associated with which pathways in the brain?
Serotonin
This drug was an approved anesthetic for humans and was discontinued in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its side effects.
PCP
PTSD is a mental disorder that involved a powerful emotional response to a distressing event(s) such as war, an accident, unexpected loss, bullying as a child, or abuse. These responses are due to _.
Trauma
Which drug can cause bone marrow damage, limb spasms, hearing loss, and kidney problems?
Inhalants
What year was big book written?
1939
Just as drugs/alchol change the brain's chemistry make-up, so does experiencing traumatic events. What part of the brain is largely effected by traumatifc situations?
Amygdala
This communication style helps a person to set boundaries, say "No" respectfully, and consider other's feelings. What communication style is this?
Assertive
When a trigger threatens our emotional well being, we engage in different inherent responses. These responses are known as _, _, and _.
Fight, flight, or freeze.