Lasting impressions
The need to take more of a drug to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
To escape, to fit in, to experiment, to rebel, to have something to do.
What are reasons people use?
A specific set of symptoms that occur when use of a drug is discontinued.
What is withdrawal?
Refusing to accept reality.
What is "denial"?
Situations or internal stress that prompt a person's desire to use drugs again.
What are triggers?
Negative impact on health, money, relationships, job, school, etc.
What are the consequences of drug abuse?
Twisting words, playing on emotions, and managing a situation in a calculated way to get what one wants.
What is "manipulation"?
The re-occurrence of a previous condition such as substance use.
What is relapse?
Testing or trying new or different drugs.
What is drug experimentation?
Explaining something away.
What is rationalization?
Some examples include low commitment to school, negative peer influence, low parental involvement, community and interpersonal violence, poverty, sensation seeking, and family history of alcohol or drug use.
What are risk factors?
This is a widely abused drug with devastating health effects. It increases extracellular concentrations of dopamine (DA), norepinephrine (NE) and serotonin (5HT) by acting on the transporter of each neurotransmitter and by reversing neurotransmitter transport direction . Chronic abuse has been associated with lasting brain changes.
What is Methamphetamine?
Treating or describing things as smaller or less important than they actually are.
What is "minimizing"?