Definitions
This term is commonly used to describe the diagnosis for people who fall into the severe category of problems related to substance use.
Addiction
Those feelings, experiences, and physical reactions that occur when people cut down or stop using their drug of choice.
Withdrawal Symptoms
A person’s favored drug of choice is called the
Primary Drug
Cocaine and methamphetamine are examples of what type of drug?
Stimulants
People who believe they’re getting heroin will likely take too much and die of breathing failure from the overdose of this opioid..
Fentanyl
Addiction is __________. This means that addiction gets worse, not better, over time. Without treatment, addiction typically does not go away, nor does it stay at the same level of intensity. Rather, for most people, addiction becomes more severe over time, causing increasingly worse physical, emotional, and social problems.
Progressive
The process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect; therefore, greater amounts of the drug must be used to get the same effect.
Tolerance
Example of synthetic cannabinoids
Spice or K2
These drugs primarily affect the user’s thinking and senses (sight, smell, etc.).
Psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs
Two drugs commonly used to wean patients off opioids.
Suboxone and Methadone
Addiction involves using despite
Negative Consequences
Thus, people who have tolerance to alcohol often use __________ to stop alcohol withdrawal symptoms.
Marijuana
When the primary and secondary drugs have very similar drug effects, they are called
Cross tolerant
When people use high doses of such powerful stimulants as amphetamines or cocaine over a long period of time, they may have a severe break with reality called a
Psychotic break / Psychosis
____ out of 5 people who use heroin began by misusing prescription pain medications.
Four
Addiction is influenced by biological, psychological, social, and ____________ factors.
environmental
are the people, places, and things associated with drinking alcohol or using other drugs.
EXTERNAL TRIGGERS
People addicted to one drug may begin to use another drug— even if it has a completely different effect—when their primary drug is unavailable. This process is called
Drug switching
A state of severe confusion. When people continue to use strong stimulants over a long period of time and/or in large doses, they may experience something called ____________
Delirium
This type of withdrawal is the most dangerous type of drug withdrawal.
Sedative-hypnotic
(also called kindling) describes a situation in which the body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug.
Reverse tolerance
are feelings that people have before or during drinking alcohol or using other drugs.
INTERNAL TRIGGERS
Powerful stimulants, like cocaine and amphetamines, can cause strong mood changes. They can make a person feel alert, confident, happy, high, or depressed. They do this by affecting the level of ____________ in the user’s brain.
neurotransmitters
Some users experience reduced blood supply to the heart, also called ...
Heart attack
This important brain chemical regulates mood, emotion, learning, memory, sleep, and pain and is negatively affected by drug / alcohol use.
Serotonin