Science and Addiction
The rates of heart disease, stroke, HIV, Hepatitis, and mental disorders move in this direction when addiction is also present
Increase, go up, or get worse
True or False: Phobia (a persistent, strong, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity) is a specific type of anxiety disorder.
True
This is the practice of regularly taking time to focus on your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being
Self-care
This term refers to the healthy ability to understand the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of another
Empathy or empathizing
The physical and psychological response associated with discontinuing substance use.
Withdrawal
Whatever the substance is, once addiction to that substance occurs for long enough this important organ drastically changes the way it functions
Brain
This mental health disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings, including periods of mania and depression.
Bipolar Disorder
Name two healthy coping skills that can be performed without the use of other people.
Journaling
Meditation
Grounding
Distraction
Physical, psychological, and emotional limits created to maintain healthy relationships.
Boundaries
One of two substances that can result in fatal withdrawals.
Alcohol
Benzodiazapines
This neurotransmitter is closely linked to the mind's reward system and is commonly associated with pleasure and reinforcement.
Dopamine
This is the term for a sudden, intense, and overwhelming episode of fear or discomfort, often accompanied by physical symptoms like a racing heart, shortness of breath, and sweating.
Panic Attack
The process of identifying triggers and warning signs and then developing specific coping strategies to avoid a return to negative behaviors
Relapse Prevention
A relationship state that includes honesty, loyalty, consistency and communication.
Trust
This practice of consuming drugs can result in bacterial infections, thinning of the walls of the heart, abscesses and organ failure.
Intravenous Drug Use
These hormones often referred to as the "feel-good" hormones, are released during activities that promote well-being, like exercise, laughter, creative expression, and socialization
Endorphins
This condition presents with a variety of symptoms, including intense feelings of distress, the presence of negative thoughts about self and others, sleep disturbance and hypervigilance.
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Similar to mindfulness, this skill allows for a person to become present and centered, thereby reducing symptoms associated with urges and cravings.
Grounding
When someone struggles to enforce consequences associated with unwanted behaviors.
Enabling
This substance is known to result in decreased heart rate, dilated pupils and drowsiness.
Opioids
The theory of substance use treatment that focuses on physical, psychological, and social factors of addiction.
Biopsychosocial
This is condition, which includes symptoms such as psychosis and disorientation, can often be confused with methamphetamine use.
Schizophrenia
This approach to addiction recovery focuses on minimizing the negative consequences associated with active substance use by providing tools, strategies, resources, and supports to reduce the risks and dangers associated with that use.
Harm Reduction
A psychological condition or a relationship in which a person with low self-esteem and a strong desire for approval has an unhealthy attachment to another.
Co-dependency
Stimulants, known for increasing heart rate, stimulating appetite, minimizing the need for sleep and in excessive amounts, mania, include substances such as (name one).
Cocaine
Methamphetamine
Caffeine