Substance Abuse
True or False: an individual's mental health status, genetic disposition, and frequency of use influence how quickly they become addicted to heroin.
True
Traumatic events such as an accident, assault, military combat or natural disaster can have lasting effects on an individual’s mental health. Many individuals will have short term responses to life-threatening events; however, some will develop longer term symptoms that can lead to a diagnosis of what?
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Addiction quickly becomes a lifestyle. A person in active addiction spends more and more time searching for drugs/alcohol resulting in what?
Isolation
The average age children begin to experiment with drugs/alcohol is...
13-14 years old
The use of marijuana before what age may have an impact on brain development?
25
What is the term for when someone experiences a mental illness and a substance use disorder simultaneously?
Those in active addiction tend to choose their use over their family or friends resulting in what?
Damaged relationships.
The most commonly abused substance and the third most common cause of death in the United States is...
Alcohol
______ is the use of FDA-approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
50% of mental health problems begin by what age?
14
Those who are in active addiction tend to do whatever is needed to achieve the high or drugs resulting in what?
Criminal behavior
What was once legally sold as a cough medicine, and initially marketed as a "non-addictive" (used as substitute for morphine and cough suppressant in 1898 before its addictive nature became clear.)
Heroin
Name three signs of opioid overdose.
• Small and constricted “pinpoint pupils”
• Falling asleep or loss of consciousness
• Slow and shallow breathing
• Choking or gurgling sounds,
• Limp body,
• Pale, blue, or cold skin.
What percentage of individuals with severe mental illness report being victims of a violent crime within a given year?
More than 25%
Drug abuse tends to dull the senses which results in?
Stagnation
Coca leaves were traditionally used as herbal remedies that were chewed to alleviate feelings of thirst, hunger, pain, fatigue, and altitude sickness before they began being used to produce ...
Cocaine
Name five things that will affect how many drinks it will take an individual to get intoxicated.
What year was Mental Health Awareness Month created in the United States?
1949
Drugs and alcohol along with the lifestyle it comes with can be expensive, resulting in what?
Financial Distress
The percentage of individuals that are able to be successful in their recovery regardless of the substance or mental health diagnosis?
75% (according to the CDC)