Stages of Change
What stage of change is defined as: Becomes aware of problems associated with behavior. Ambivalent regarding positives and negatives. Explores the potential to change.
What is Contemplation?
Desires to change behavior but lacks confidence and commitment. Intends to change before 6 months.
True/False: Addiction is a chronic brain disease.
What is true?
Define Addiction.
What is chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences.(NIDA)
Name 2 emotional/ mental withdrawal symptoms.
What is
Anxiety: Anxiety, panic attacks, restlessness, irritability
Depression: Social isolation, lack of enjoyment, fatigue, poor appetite
Sleep: Insomnia, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
Cognitive: Poor concentration, poor memory
What drug is defined as: disrupting communication within the brain. Users report intense, rapidly shifting emotions and perceptions of things that aren’t really there.
What is a Hallucinogen.
What stage of change is defined as:Engages in self-directed behavior change effort. Gains new insights and develops new skills. Consciously chooses new behavior.
What is Action?
Learns to overcome the tendencies for unwanted behavior.
How do drugs work in the brain?
What is Drugs interfere with the way neurons send, receive, and process signals via neurotransmitters.
Define a Neurotransmitter.
What is a natural occurring chemical in our brains that carry messages between neurons.
Head: Headaches, dizziness
Chest: Chest tightness, difficulty breathing
Heart: Racing heart, skipped beats, palpitations
GI: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach aches
Muscles: Muscle tension, twitches, tremors, shakes, muscle aches
Skin: Sweating, tingling
What drug is defined as: a drug that decreases alertness by slowing down the activity of the central nervous system
What is a depressant.
What stage of change is defined as: Unaware of problems associated with behavior. Certain that the positives of the behavior out- weigh the negative.
What is Pre-Contemplation?
Not interested in change. Unwilling to change. No intention to change.
Name the neurotransmitter related to pleasure in our brain.
What is dopamine?
Define denial.
What is psychological defense mechanism that protects people from seeing the harsh realities of their addiction.
Define Withdrawal.
What is when an individuals with a physical dependence to alcohol or drugs cut down or stop taking the drug and experience symptoms that are the opposite of the effect.
What drug is defined as: impact the body’s central nervous system (CNS), causing the user to feel as if they are “speeding up.”
What is a stimulant.
What stage of change is defined as: Accepts responsibility to change behavior. Evaluates and selects techniques for behavior. Develops a plan.
What is Preparation?
What does the Pre frontal cortex do in our brains?
What is powers the ability to think, plan, solve problems, make decisions, and exert self-control over impulses.
Define reverse tolerance.
What is when the user's body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug, causing an extreme reaction, such as a seizure or a psychotic episode.
True/False: Alcohol and tranquilizers produce the most dangerous physical withdrawal.
What is true.
Suddenly stopping alcohol or tranquilizers can lead to seizures, strokes, or heart attacks in high risk patients.
What is defined as: occurs when two or more drugs are used at the same time or on the same occasion.
What is Polydrug use, also known as mixing drugs.
What stage of change is defined as: Masters the ability to sustain new behavior with minimum effort. Establishes desired new behavior patterns and self-control.
What is Maintenance?
True/False: Risk and protective factors may be either environmental or biological.
What is true.
Define Alcoholics Anonymous.
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem. (aa.org)
True/False: Much of the danger in withdrawal from drugs has to do with the body's response to the extreme changes in the chemical processes going on in the brain and the rest of the body.
What is true.
Define tolerance to a drug.
What is when a person needs more of a drug to achieve the same effects they felt before with smaller amounts.