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________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction.
What is Dopamine?
“Sudden Sniffing death” can happen to a completely healthy young person from a single use of this drug.
What are inhalants?
The effects of substances can change with time as our bodies adapt to the substance.
What is known as tolerance?
A person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.
What are values?
_____________ release chemicals into the brain to deliver messages.
What are neurotransmitters?
At first, this drug may make you sweaty and shaky, but seizures, cardiac arrest and even death are the real gamble.
What is cocaine?
When substance use is stopped, these changes cause bodies to work abnormally once the substance is no longer present.
What is called withdrawal?
Something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or conviction.
What are beliefs?
Some high-risk situations to avoid are to not let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired. What can help you remember these circumstances?
What is H.A.L.T.?
___________ is the most heavily used substances in the U.S.
What is nicotine?
Each year approximately 5,000 people under the age of 21 die as a result of this drug.
What is alcohol?
Drug class which are typically used to treat anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, and sleep disorders.
What are sedatives?
A desire or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time.
What are goals?
-Uncontrollable craving for the drug -Loss of control -Use despite negative consequences - chronic, biological brain disease -Psychological dependence -Physical dependence.
What is addiction?
Sedative hypnotic substance that acts as a depressant on the central nervous system.
What is Alcohol?
Since this drug is an anesthetic you can easily black out and forget what happened while under its influence.
What is ketamine?
This substance can change one’s thought processes, mood and perceptions.
What are Hallucinogens?
What do the letters stand for in the acronym SMART?
What is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timely?
This was begun in Akron, Ohio, in 1935, with a chance meeting between two alcoholics, one a doctor and one a broker.
What is AA?
Synthetic or semi-synthetic substances that are used to address pain.
What are opioids?
Surveys have shown that most adults who used this drug in their teens were more likely to develop adult substance use disorders with this and other drugs.
What is tobacco?
These substances case a sense of energy, alertness, talkativeness and well-being that users find pleasurable.
What are stimulants?
The four modules of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
What are mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, & Interpersonal Effectiveness?