Addiction
What is described as a primary, chronic, and disabling condition with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and outcome. It involves compulsion, loss of control, and continued use despite negative consequences.
What is Addiction
Drug category that may make a person see images, hear sounds, and feel sensations that seem real, but do not exist
What are Hallucinogens
Drugs that energize the nervous system by making the nerves act more quickly than normal. They have different effects at different doses
What are Stimulants
The only way to heal your brain after long term substance use is to do this
What is stop all use of the substance
The process in which the same amount of a substance no longer causes the same reaction
What is Tolerance
What method of administration reaches the brain the fastest and supplies the brain with the most amount of the substance
What are the Lungs (Inhalation)
Withdrawal from this drug type is the most dangerous, life threatening drug withdrawal
What is Sedative Hypnotics
Benzodiazepines and Alcohol
Feelings, experiences, and physical reactions that occur when people cut down or stop using their drug of choice
What is Withdrawal?
People addicted to one drug that begin to use another drug- even if it has a completely different effect- when their primary drug is not available
What is Drug Switching
This Opioid is 1000 times stronger than Heroin and is the cause of many overdose deaths
What is Fentanyl
After long term stimulant use, it may take this long for neurotransmitters to naturally produce regularly again
What is months to years
Naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons (which make up nerves)
What are Neurotransmitters
Occurs when a person's primary and secondary drugs have similar drug effects.
What is Cross Tolerance
Drooping eyelids, a nodding head, slower or slurred speech, and lack of physical coordination are symptoms if being under the influence of this substance
What are Opiates or Opioids
This neurotransmitter that makes us feel happy is released at 2-10 times the rate when using an addictive drug
What is Dopamine
What happens when a person uses a certain drug over a long period of time. The cells become used to the drug and adapt to the presence of the drug.
What is Physical Dependence
This term refers to the phenomenon in which a lesser dose of a drug produces the same effect. For example, an alcoholic with deteriorated liver function may become intoxicated with consumption of much less alcohol than earlier in his drinking career.
What is Reverse Tolerance
40% of all hospital beds in the US are being used to treat health conditions that are related to this
What is Alcohol Consumption
This part of our brains "remembers" drug use and lights up when we are exposed to the drug again
What is the amygdala