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a primary, chronic, progressive condition with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and outcome. It involves compulsion, loss of control, continued use despite negative consequences, and other symptoms. Used to describe severe problems related to the compulsive and habitual use of mood-altering substances.
What is addiction?
When neurotransmitters in the brain are lower than normal or depleted, a person may feel this way.
What is sad, depressed, lacking energy?
Occurs when two drugs are used that have the same physical effects. Typically the secondary drug, since it has the same or similar effect, can keep withdrawal symptoms from occurring.
What is cross-tolerance?
These are the feelings, experiences, and physical reactions that occur when people cut down or stop using their drug of choice.
What are Withdrawal Symptoms?
Information or an emergency "kit" to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in.
What is a relapse prevention plan
True or False
When a person has prolonged drug use and a drug-induced imbalance is created in the brain, the body slows down the production of neurotransmitters
What is True?
What are Neurotransmitters?
Effects that occur when a person takes a large amount of drugs or a drug over a long period of time; paranoia, agitation, hallucinations etc.
Secondary Drug Effects
___________ is the fastest addicting drug
What is nicotine
True or False
Neurotransmitters are not naturally occurring chemicals in the brain with an effect on thinking, feeling and behaviors.
What is False?
This is a result of the body's prolonged exposure to a mood-altering drug. This happens when the cells in the body become accustomed to the drug and begin to adapt to the presence of that drug. When this happens, the body appears to be in balance only when the drug is present.
What is physical dependence?
When someone replaces his or her drug with another that is NOT cross-tolerant and produces different effects.
What is drug switching.
Define H.A.L.T.
What is too hungry, too angry, too lonely and too tired.
Neurotransmitters carry different kinds of ___________ and they work with different nerve systems. They can be too high, too low or in balance.
What are messages?
This is the process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect or when the amount of a drug needs to be increased to have the same effect as before.
What is tolerance?
When individuals use a primary and secondary drug to counteract one another.
Upper-downer cycle
The use of mood-altering drugs that interferes with or has a negative effect on a person’s life.
Substance Use Disorder
When a person stops using ___________, they often increase the use of __________ in the mistaken believe that they are controlling their drug use.
What are primary drugs and secondary drugs?
What are DOC and next best?
What is first choice and second choice of drug?
This occurs when the user's body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug, causing an extreme reaction, such as a seizure or a psychotic episode. This is also occurring when it takes far less of the substance to get intoxicated then it once did.
What is reverse tolerance, also known as kindling?
True or False
Increased tolerance is not a criteria of substance use disorders.
What is False?