Nature of Addictions
Drug addiction is a combination of three factors: heredity, environment, and ________.
What is the use psychoactive drugs?
This is a time of high drop out rate for individuals struggling with addiction.
What is shortly after detoxification?
Continued usage in spite of declining health is an example of what element of addiction.
What is continued use is spite of adverse consequences?
Another way to describe that addictions have metapatterns that are important and discernible clinically.
What is addiction interaction model?
A depletion, extraordinary denial of needs which results in a profile of some of the following (excessive control, efforts to initiate, compulsive behavior, obsession, loss of time, despair, escalation, etc,.) and has (in many ways) some of the same features of and structure of addictions (i.e., right down to often interacting with addictions as part of the compulsive cycle)
What is deprivation?
Heredity does play a major role in addictions but not a _________ one.
What is decisive?
Three types of treatments that can be helpful with both substance and process addictions..
What is counseling (family, individual, and/or group), medication, and Support Groups (12-steps, SMART recovery, etc.)
Repeated relapses, intense craving, and continued use despite having a psychological problem that was caused or exacerbated by use are three elements that indicate which of the following.
What is an indication that brain circuitry has been altered?
Eleven dimensions of the addiction interaction model show how addictions impacted and_______.
What is how they (addictions) related to one another.
The following (same characteristics, similar histories, usually found together, predictable patterns of substitution and interchangeability, interact with one another on a number of levels in a systemic fashion) are true about describing which two elements?
What is addictions and deprivations?
Addiction lies here in the brain
What is nucleus-accumbens-dopamine system?
The following are considered issues in diagnosing addictions
What is tolerance, withdrawal, withdrawal avoidance, socially dysfunctional use, use despite problems, cannot stop, salience, preoccupation, and cannot limit use?
A vulnerability (genetic) factor related to the development of a substance use disorder.
What is a pre-existing mental health disorder?
A term to describe where one addiction is used to substitute or deter the use of another addiction that is thought to be more destructive or socially unacceptable.
What is inhibiting?
This is a process whereby clients are asked to create a time line of major events in their life in which they mark a line for each addiction (including time of onset, worst moments, examples of powerlessness and unmanageability, and key events).
Multiple addiction time line
Drug treatment medication, including anti-craving agents, are important adjuncts to treatment because this part of the brain in inaccessible to reason with (as what we do in other forms of treatment, such as supported recovery, counseling, etc.).
What is the mid-brain?
The regular episodic use of the substance but does not automatically mean addiction.
What is compulsion?
A clinician can diagnose this process addiction according to criteria set forth by the DSM-5.
What is Gambling Disorder?
Where one addiction is used to cover up for another perhaps more substantive addiction.
What is masking?
Specialized proteins or enzymes that are "lock" in the "lock and "key" concept of activation of an increase or decrease of firing of a nerve cell. This is also what a drug attaches (binds) to...
What is a receptor?
Addiction disrupts the symphony of both of these types of transmitters.
What is inhibitory and stimulatory?
Compulsion, loss of control, and continued use in spite of adverse consequences are considered this.
What is (are) the primary characteristics of addictive disease.
The following characteristics are all descriptors: progressive, potentially fatal, ridden in denial, incurable, and can be brought into remission.
What is addiction?
In the past, co-morbid, intemperance, mutliple addictions, dual addictions, cross addictions, multiple misdrug use, multiple substance use, polysubstance dependence, and (currently) dual diagnosis were/are all ways to describe this.
Addiction Interaction Disorder
Innate transformation capacity in the brain
What is neuroplasticity