Symptoms
Relying on a substance to maintain daily functioning.
What is dependence?
A well-known support group associated with alcoholism.
What is AA (Alcoholic's Anonymous)?
The neurotransmitter associated with pleasure.
What is dopamine?
A program intended to help individuals stop compulsive substance use.
What is treatment?
Returning to substance use after quitting.
What is relapse?
Its symptoms are sweating, goosebumps, vomiting, anxiety, insomnia, and/or muscle pain.
What is withdrawal?
A strong desire to consume a particular substance.
What is craving?
Responsible for basic survival instincts.
What is the limbic system?
A home people in treatment consider living at as they transition out of residential.
What is a clean and sober house?
The addictive chemical in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
Continuing using substances despite the harm it causes.
What is abuse/addiction?
When a person gradually needs a larger dose of a drug to feel the same effect.
What is increased tolerance?
Responsible for decision making and impulse control.
What is the cortex?
Stopping the misuse of all substances.
What is abstinence?
Influences likelihood of developing an addiction.
What are genetics, environment, and age of first use?
Thoughts that are distorted and result in irresponsible behavior.
What are thinking errors?
A chronic dysfunction of the brain system that involves reward, motivation, and memory.
What is addiction?
The age your brain's prefrontal cortex is fully developed.
What is 25?
Methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.
What are coping skills?
The ingredient in marijuana that makes a person feel "high."
What is THC?
Inability to manage impulses and behavior during substance use.
What is loss of control?
The most impacted organ in the body from substance use.
A system in the brain that reinforces behavior because it is pleasurable.
What is the reward system?
An internal or external process for making a change in one's life.
What is motivation?
The most commonly most misused/abused substance.
What is alcohol?