Substances
Terminology
Negative Consequences
Treatment
Misc.
100

Caffeine and Nicotine are both 

What are stimulants?

100

The organ inside the head that controls all body functions of a human being.

What is the brain?

100

The brain stops producing this on it's own due to continued substance use

What is dopamine, serotonin, etc.?

100

A live-in health care facility providing therapy for substance use disorders, mental illness, or other behavioral problems

What is residential/inpatient treatment?

100

The neurotransmitter responsible for regulating mood, digestion, and sleep

What is serotonin? 

200

The liver metabolizes this substance at a constant rate

What is alcohol?

200

When the body requires a specific dose of alcohol/other drugs in order to prevent withdrawal symptoms

What is physical dependence?

200

The substance related to the cause of 600,000+ deaths since 1999

What is fentanyl/opioids?

200

The first stage of treatment

What is detoxification?

200

The final disease of the liver due to the production of scar tissue that cuts off oxygen, damage cannot be reversed

What is cirrhosis?

300

It can take up to 14 months for the brain to recover from this substance

What are stimulants/opioids/alcohol?

300

When the effects of a substance are significantly reduced due to repeated use

What is tolerance?

300

Abuse of this substance can cause of bowel tissue decay, necrosis, and perforation in the stomach/intestines lining

What is chronic stimulant/methamphetamine use?

300

The minimum length of time a person should stay in treatment for the best chance of staying sober,

What is 90 days?

300

The brain learns to repeat behavior through _______ reinforcement. 

What is positive reinforcement? 

400

Dependence can form as quickly as a few days to 2 weeks

What are opioids?

400

The body and brains chemical messengers

What are neurotransmitters?

400

The disorder that causes fat acculumuation on the liver due to chronic alcohol consumption

What is fatty liver?

400

The use of medications in combination with other treatments, such as counseling, to treat opioid-use disorder and help sustain recovery

What is medication-assisted treatment?

400

Long acting opioids see withdrawal symptoms __ hours after last use

What is 36 hours?

500

The withdrawals can be fatal/result in death

What is alcohol withdrawal?
500

When tolerance to one substance causes tolerance to a different substance, despite no prior use

What is cross-tolerance?
500

Heroin abuse has been linked to brain damage that resembles this neurodegenerative disorder

What is Alzheimer's? 

500

 _____ affects about 40% to 60% of a person’s risk for addiction

What are genetics?

500

The limbic system is also known as the brains _____

What is reward pathway?

600

Endorphins are known as the body's "natural ____"

What are opioids? 

600

The system of the body that controls intelligence, memory, personality, emotion, speech, and ability to feel and move

What is the central nervous system?

600

The brain loses ___ the amount of gray matter a year than normal due to chronic cocaine use

What is double the amount?

600

The use of Naltrexone, Antaabuses, and Campral

What are medications used to treat alcohol-use disorder?

600

The name for withdrawal symptoms that occur after initial acute withdrawal from stimulants and last 2-3 weeks

What is protracted withdrawal?

700

The use of this substance leads to decreased dopamine transporters in the brain

What is methamphetamine/stimulants?

700

Our set of higher, cognitive skills associated with the frontal lobe

What is executive functioning?

700

The development of Wernicke's Encephalopathy is the result of a lack of this vitamin in the brain due to chronic alcohol consumption

What is vitamin B/thiamine?

700

After multiple treatment episodes, what percent of individuals eventually reach a state of sustained abstinence?

What is 60%?

700

The reabsorption of neurotransmitters into a neuron when they don't attach to a receptor

What is reuptake?

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