Vocabulary
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is Addiction
CBT stands for....
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
According to interviews, he used cocaine for the first time in the 1970s and spent most of the 1980s abusing drugs. Using cocaine initially helped him overcome his shyness, but in the final days of his addiction, it instead led to social isolation. However, one of his greatest accomplishments was his decision to enter treatment for addiction
What is Elton John.
Purely from the point of total cost and harm to the community, which is usually considered by experts to be the most 'dangerous' drug? This is probably due to its widespread use in most places.
What is alcohol
An ___________ is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
What is an intervention
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial
MAT stands for....
What Medication Assisted Treatment
He has admitted that he spent most of his early days as an actor impaired by drugs and alcohol, and has been arrested for alcohol, cocaine, and heroin in the past. He was incarcerated in California because of his substance abuse and has spent time in a state-owned rehabilitation center.
Who is Robert Downy Jr.
What is name of the gummy substance formed by millions of tiny particles in cigarette smoke?
What is tar
A form of treatment where the patient lives in a recovery facility
What is In patient treatment / residential / sober home.
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is Detox
DBT stands for...
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Per reports, she has a history of severe Vicodin abuse. By the age of 17, she was consuming as many as 50 pills each day. Her mother’s struggle with cancer exacerbated her addiction. In 2009, she achieved lasting sobriety after having completed four stays in rehab.
Who is Kelly Osbourne
What is an unwanted change in the body that is not related to the main purpose of a drug?
What is a Side Effect
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is Detox
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger
H.A.L.T stands for...
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired
She began using marijuana at the age of 10 and graduated to cocaine use by age 12. As a teenager, she entered treatment and published a book about her struggles at the age of 14.
Who is Drew Barrymore
The two types of drug dependence?
What is 1. Physical dependence is when someone develops a tolerance for a drug or shows withdrawl symptoms without it 2. Psychological dependence is a strong emotional desire to continue using a drug.
A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently in a therapeutic session that share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process
What is A support group
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is Tolerance
NRT stands for...
What is Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Actress and author who has her own struggles with substance abuse, becoming addicted to prescription painkillers following cosmetic surgery. She found sobriety with a treatment program and support from others experiencing addiction. Today, she advocates for policies to reduce opiate misuse.
Who is Jamie Lee Curtis
Name at least 5 pieces of information found on a label of an over the counter drug/medication.
1. Name of product 2. Type of medicine 3. Amount in package 4. Uses 5. Warnings 6. Expiration Dat 7. Manufacturer's information 8. Active and Inactive ingredients
A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/ addictive behavior
What is relapse