Brain and addiction
What part of the brain take 25 years to completely mature?
What is the prefrontal cortex
List some withdrawal symptoms of alcohol.
What are cold sweats, sneezing, body aches, nausea, vomiting, seizures...
All mood-altering drugs, including alcohol and other sedative-hypnotics, as well as opiods,stimulants and psychedelic drugs.
What are mood altering substances?
The emotional brain includes the reward center which responds to ____________________.
What is dopamine?
PAWS can last this long.
What is two years?
Changing these groups of triggers is a necessary step in recovery.
What are people, places and things?
This part of the brain keeps us alive.
What is the brain stem or primal brain?
PAWS stand for __________________________.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
The first step in dealing with triggers is ___________ them.
What is identifying?
The amygdala controls what emotion?
What is fear?
These things help manage PAWS.
Education, nutrition, therapy.
Give triggers less power by _____________.
What is talking about them?