Definitions
The person uses a substance or engages in a damaging behaviour more frequently, interfering with major areas of his or her life, such as family, parents, school, legal issues, money, friends and leisure.
What is Abuse?
List the 5 stages of the Addiction trajectory.
No use, Use, Misuse, Abuse, Dependancy
During this phase the individual is actively working to maintain changes made and prevent relapse.
Maintenance phase
List the 3 levels of prevention
Primary, secondary, tertiary
At this stage the person has lost the ability to choose to use or not to use.
What is dependency?
In this stage people may begin to experiment with alcohol, other drugs, or behaviours to see what it is like, to fit in with peers, or perhaps to escape from personal troubles.
Use
Bob drinks 15 beer daily and states "Im just unwinding after a long day at work, everyone does it". What phase of change is Bob in?
Precontemplation phase
This level of prevention is concerned with limiting and reducing complications and dysfunction related to the experience of substance or behavioural abuse and addiction.
Tertiary Prevention
A physiological experience that occurs when a person's reaction to a substance decreases with repeated administrations of the same dose.
What is tolerance?
In this stage the person now has an addiction.
Dependency
Bob has told you that he just decided to join a health education class for his binge eating, what phase of the Transtheoretical model is bob in?
Preparation phase
This level of prevention includes labelling products such as alcohol and cigarettes
Primary prevention
Physiological changes as the blood and tissue concentrations of a drug decrease after heavy and prolonged use of a substance.
What is withdrawal?
An example at this stage would be spending more money on gambling than intended.
What is the 6th stage of the transtheoretical model of change?
Relapse
Harm reduction approaches such as needle-exchange programs belongs to which level of prevention?
Secondary prevention
The persistent, compulsive dependence on use of a substance or behaviour despite its negative consequences and the increasing frequency of those consequences.
In this stage the person may become obsessive about when, how, and where to get a certain substance.
Abuse
List the 5 stages in the transtheoretical model?
Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance
Intensive outpatient programs is an example of what prevention level
Tertiary prevention