What makes an Addiction?
What percentage of the 21 million Americans that have at least one addiction receive treatment?
10%
This drug is usually prepared as a liquid, but is generally sold on small pieces of blotting paper known as tabs
LSD
an __ is an attempt by one or many people to get someone to seek professional help
Intervention
a way of building awareness around the extent of someone’s substance use problem
direct examples
Heath Ledger
1 in how many Americans over the age of 12 have an alcohol use disorder
10
Drug that was once an ingredient of a popular soda
cocaine
A type of treatment where people reside in the facility
inpatient
Typical first stage of addiction
Recreational use
Member of the 27 club, this female vocalist know for her powerful, raspy style passed in 1970
Janis Joplin
Approximately what percentage of people currently using opiates began with prescribed opioids
80%
What drug was first synthesized from ephedrine in 1918, and was also used during World War II?
Meth
description of treatment where someone has rid themselves of the substances left in their body
detox
At least two characteristics of deepening addiction
mood swings, high risk behaviors, cravings, personality changes
In 2016, then 57 year old pop icon was found unresponsive in his Paisley Park home due to an accidental fentanyl overdose, leaving more than doves crying at his death
Prince
What's the percentage of American high school students using addictive substances?
46%
At low doses, effects can resemble to alcohol use with increasingly dangerous changes to perception, including detachment from surroundings and a sense of strength and invincibility
PCP
Spiritual principles of the fellowship
honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness
Enabling
This iconic spokesperson for many a brand died in 2009 at 51 after cardiac problems caused by excessive cocaine use
Billy Mays
40 million
Appearing to increase in the drug supply, this substance produces similar effects to xylazine with increased sedation and pain-killing effects, and longer rate of action. This substance is not yet well-understood in humans and could possibly contribute to bizarre and dangerous behavior after use, such as hallucinations, screaming episodes, memory loss and extreme confusion
Medetomidine
the formal name for the framework associated with "the stages of change"
Transtheoretical Model
Cognitive restructuring
This musician and singer joined the ranks of heartbreakers another time over when he died in 2017 at 66 of a deadly cocktail of several opiates
Tom Petty