Addiction
You can go to one of these to be with others in recovery. This can help you to remember that you can get through this. Get other people’s names and numbers to call in case of future cravings and urges.
What are support groups/recovery meetings?
This actor/comedian who lived in the bay area struggled with addiction and substance abuse. He committed suicide in 2014.
Who is Robin Williams?
Negative, incorrect beliefs, stereotypes, and labels are another name for this
What is Stigma?
A major symptom when a cocaine abuser enters withdrawal.
What is Anxiety?
The major organ that is directly effected the most by drug use.
What is the brain?
The name of a support group for family members of alcoholics
What is Al-Anon?
The singer songwriter of Piano Man struggled with alcohol abuse for years before entering rehab.
Who is Billy Joel?
Behaviors 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 effect.
What is addiction?
Name two important risk factors for addiction.
Genetics, environment, early age, stress/trauma, or mental health history.
The brain finishes developing once you reach this age.
What is 25?
This type of addiction is when the BODY itself feels a direct need for a drug.
What is Physical Dependency?
This author, who wrote books such as Carrie and The Green Mile struggled with alcohol and prescription drug addiction for years.
Who is Stephen King?
The need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. In other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is tolerance?
Name two things that can decrease a person's chance of developing an addiction?
Complete abstinence, drug education, and healthy coping skills
DAILY DOUBLE! What is it called when you have both a Mental Health illness and addiction of any kind.
What is a co-occurring disorder or dual diagnosis?
Cocaine or Methamphemine are examples of this kind of drug
What are stimulants?
DOUBLE DOUBLE! This Marvel actor has struggled with alcoholism over the years.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
The process by which a poison or toxin is removed from the body and generally medically supervised treatment designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances.
What is detox?
The younger people use substances, the less chance they have at becoming addicted. True or false?
False. The younger one begins using the more chance they have at becoming addicted.
This liver disease is common amongst individuals who struggle with alcoholism.
What is cirrhosis?
An event that seeks to increase an alcoholic's desire to quit by confronting them. It's also the name of a tv show.
What is an Intervention?
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?
A neurotransmitter in the brain that is triggered by substances and causes a repeat in behaviors?
Daily Double!
What is dopamine?
This country has the highest rate of addiction in the world
What is Iran?
This liver condition is common amongst IV drug users.
What is Hepatitis C?