The love hormone
Oxytocin
In this stage you are not thinking about using
Emotional Relapse
The triune brain describes three parts of the brain.
What are they?
Reptilian Brain (primal instincts)
Mammalian brain (emotions and the limbic system)
Prefrontal Cortex (logic, cognition and rationalization)
Eminem
Company responsible for 1 ton of heroin a year delivered to the US in 1900
Bayer
The happy chemical
Serotonin
Craving for drugs or alcohol
Mental relapse
A pathway that starts in the limbic system and circulates through the neocortex.
The reward pathway
He has saved the planet from deadly asteroids, married an ordinary girl from the block and peened an Oscar winning screenplay with his buddy. In between all of that, this three-time movie screen superhero has been to rehab 3 times.
Ben Affleck
Italian word for platelets
Piastrini
How long does it take to form a new habit?
66 days
Isolating, Poor eating and sleeping habits and focusing on others.
Emotional relapse
The three components of the habit loop
Cue or trigger
routine or habit
reward
This famous rock star died officially of heart failure, but after his death reportedly was found to contain high dosages of, among other things, the opiates Dilaudid, Percodan, and Demerol, as well as Quaaludes and codeine.
Elvis Presley
After testing his new drug on coworkers, that reported feeling heroic. This led to Heinrich Dresser naming his drug.
Heroin
Inventor of Champagne
Don Perignon
minimizing consequences or glamorizing past use.
mental relapse
A habit is formed when two or more neurons bind together and form a .......
Neural Pathway
This singer/songwriter experienced a 20-year drug and alcohol addiction that he said saw him spending about $16,000 a week on heroin in the 1970s. He chose to get clean and change his path after the death of his 4-year-old son.
Eric Clapton
The original logo of the Bayer Company
Lion standing over a globe.
Stimulants activate the fight or flight response system by activating this neurotransmitter.
Norepinephrine
The 5 rules to recovery
1-Change your life
2-Be completely honest
3-Ask for help
4-Practice self-care
5-Don't bend the rules
The company responsible for mapping out the human brain and finding over 21,000 habit pathways thus far
Connectome
Name that movie
A biopic of a famous country music legend and his rise to fame in Tennessee. While on tour, he meets the love of his life, singer June Carter. However, things take a turn when he becomes involved in drugs and his marriage to first wife, Vivian, begins to fall apart. June eventually helps him recover from his addiction and he proposes to her in front of a live audience.
Walk the line (Johnny Cash)
Acytlsalicylic acid extracted from willow bark is synthesized into ....
Aspirin