Coping
cutting, suicide attempts, purging, drugs
Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Wellbutrin
What are antidepressants?
Temporary blindness to risk
What is denial?
The most commonly used drug in America
What is Marijuana?
What are withdrawal symptoms
people similar to ourselves or our friends influencing us
What is peer pressure?
True or false: Taking medication means you are crazy
False
Chemical in the brain-gives pleasure
What is dopamine?
Feeling and/or thoughts that one is having that causes them to make a choice.
Internal Triggers
Places, people and things that cause someone to make a choice.
External Triggers
clenched fist, rapid breathing and heartbeat, red fast
What are warning signs of anger.
Dry mouth, sedation, lightheaded, stomach upset, blurry vision
What are side effects?
Need more and more to get high
What is tolerance?
A common illness sometimes associated with alcohol abuse that impact the liver.
What is cirrhosis?
True or False: People can drive us to drink or us drugs
What is False
Helps stabilize a chemical imbalance in the brain
What are medications
Depakote, Lithium, Tegretol, Neurontin
What are mood stabilizers?
A behavior characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance as time goes on, to achieve the same affect
What is detox?
liquor bottles, pipes, bongs, needles, syringe, smoke paper or rolling paper
What is drug paraphernalia?
This actress who is most well known for playing Princess Leia has spoken out about having bipolar disorder and is in recovery from cocaine and prescription drug abuse
Who is Carrie Fisher?
scars, being hospitalized, dying
seeing hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting something that is not real.
What are hallucination?
A person in active addiction to drugs will continue to get worse over time
The type of food or drink usually stomps an alcohol craving
What is sweet?
This Marvel actor has struggled with alcoholism over the years
Who is Robert Downey Jr.