Addiction Basics
How does the video define addiction?
What is a disease of the brain?
What organ controls thoughts and behavior?
What is the brain?
What is the Pleasure Construct?
Genes, Reward, Memory, Stress, Choice
What do we call things that cause urges to use?
What are triggers?
When skills are strengthened, abstinence is maintained, and conscious healthy choices are part of a daily routine
What is Recovery?
Addiction can't be a disease because taking a drug is a behavior and all behavior stems from choices.
What is the Choice Argument?
I am responsible for processing judgement, personality, and giving meanings to emotions and values.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What is it when people are more genetically predisposed to an addiction?
What is Genes
3 things can cause relapse: drugs, drug cues, and "blank"
What is Stress or CRF?
Although addiction may not be a choice, what make treatment successful and effective?
What is when there is a conscious choice made to change?
What are the 3 parts that make up the disease model?
Organ -> Defect -> Symptoms
Neurotransmitter present in regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, motivation, and feelings of pleasure.
What is dopamine?
What is the 1950s research that shows the link between substance use and animals?
What is Mice Studies?
The brain remembers the experience of drug use and this yields cues leading to motivation to use.
What is Memory?
What is the goal of addiction treatment?
What is stopping harmful substance use?
What word describes addiction as long-lasting?
What is chronic?
How does he explain hard rock formations vs. soft rock formations? (Resilient genetics vs. Non-resilient)
What is Resilient genetics vs. Non-resilient genetics?
What is the chemical in the brain that is responsible for drug memory and drug seeking?
What is Glutamate?
When stress is overwhelming, what is the chemical that the brain releases?
CRF
How does learning about neuroscience of addiction support recovery?
What is it creates awareness on the symptoms of addiction?
Which analogy does he use to explain the 5 theories of addiction? (Genes, Reward, Memory, Stress and Choice.)
Russian Nesting Dolls
The "Dopamine Hypothesis" states that if a person has a problem with one drug...
They are likely to have a problem with all drugs.
When choice is eliminated, brain develops "craving" in order to protect pathway to drug use because the brain thinks it needs the drug for survival -craving is involuntary.
What is hypo-frontality?
Why can cravings return after long periods of sobriety?
What is the brain remembers and reactivates past use patterns?
What message does the video give about hope and recovery?
What is recovery is possible with support and treatment?