General
When someone consumes a psychoactive substance.
What is substance use?
These are prescribed by health care practitioners to treat mental illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and anxiety disorders.
What are psychiatric medications?
For example, exercising, meditating, drawing, talking to a friend.
What are healthy coping skills?
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy?
A specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses
What is a neuron?
Needing more of the substance to get the desired effect or having a reduced effect with the same level of use.
What is tolerance?
"These" drugs slow down your brain function while "those" drugs elevate your mood and increase your alertness and energy.
What are depressants and stimulants?
Love and attachment, healthy coping skills and connections, healthy activities and hobbies, friends and family.
What are protective factors?
The ability to express positive and negative ideas and feelings in an open, honest and direct way.
What is assertive communication?
A chemical that is responsible for transmitting signals in between the nerve cells (neurons) of the brain
What is dopamine?
When a person consumes alcohol or drugs regularly, despite the fact that it causes issues in their life.
What is substance abuse?
There was over-prescribing, under-regulating, under-educating.
What is the reason there was an opioid epidemic?
For example living in poverty, inequity, disparity and the stresses that brings.
What are risk factors?
A question which requires more thought and more than a simple one-word answer.
What is open-ended?
A chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, causes the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber, a muscle fiber, or some other structure
What is a neurotransmitter?
When there is a predictable group of signs and symptoms that result from either the sudden removal of, or abrupt decrease in the regular dosage of a drug.
What is withdrawal?
A chemical substance that changes the brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior.
What are psychoactive drugs?
Cutting, binge eating or isolation.
What are unhealthy coping skills?
For example, making eye contact, nodding, leaning in or smiling.
What is non-verbal communication?
Hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system that activate the body's opiate receptors
What are endorphins?
When you rely on a substance to feel good or to cope with everyday life. This can happen with many types of drugs when they are used for a long time – even prescription medication.
What is dependence?
This powerful opioid was intended to be used as a pain medication but is often made illegally and used as a recreational drug, often mixed with heroin or cocaine.
What is fentanyl?
Withdrawing from friends, doing worse in school, being more irritable and not enjoying things you used to do.
What are warning signs?
A communication technique that requires that the listener fully concentrate, understand, respond and then remember what is being said.
What is active-listening?
A brain disease in which a person uses drugs for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental consequences.
What is drug addiction?