The process a person dependent on drugs or alcohol might got through when abstaining from the drug for long periods of time. That includes sweating, tremors, and other physical symptoms.
What is withdrawal?
100
The most common comorbid mental disorder with alcohol dependence.
What is depression?
100
A key biological causal factor in developing a sensitivity to addictive drugs.
What is genetics?
100
The need for increased amounts of substance to achieve desired effects.
What is tolerance?
100
A type of addiction just as life-threatening and damaging psychologically and socially as drug abuse but is in the form of an activity.
What is pathological gambling?
200
Stimulant drugs that increase feelings of alertness and confidence and decrease feelings of fatigue.
What are cocaine and amphetamines?
200
The age that drug abuse and dependence is most common.
What is adolescence and young adulthood?
200
Type of causal factor that includes factors such as stress, emotionally immaturity, personality types, and parental guidance failure.
What is psychosocial causal factors?
200
The excessive use of a substance resulting in potentially hazardous behavior or continued use despite persistence social, psychological, occupational, or health problem.
What is substance abuse?
200
Two common addictions that are not have the extensive or self-destructive problems related to other types drug addictions.
What is caffeine and nicotine addiction?
300
What long-term use of certain drugs like alcohol or amphetamines can lead to.
What is brain damage?
300
More than 37% of alcohol abusers suffer from this.
What is a coexisting mental disorder?
300
A factor that when combined with genetics provides strong evidence for the development of alcohol dependence.
What is learning (or environmental factors)?
300
The more severe form of substance use disorders that involve a marked physiological need for increasing amounts of substance.
What is substance dependence?
300
Alcohol abuse is associated with over 40% of these type of deaths.
What are automobile accident deaths?
400
The short-term effects of barbiturates (sedatives).
What is CNS depression and sleep?
400
About a quarter of individuals wit an alcohol-abuse disorder will also have at least one of these.
What is a personality disorder?
400
A main sociocultural causal factor for alcohol dependence along with religion and social influences.
What is geographic location?
400
A person with a serious drinking problem that impairs health, personal relationships, and occupational functioning versus a dependence on alcohol that seriously interferes with life adjustment.
What is an alcoholic versus alcoholism/alcohol dependence?
400
One of the greatest problems in the treatment of addictive disorders (usually following a successful treatment program).
What is relapse?
500
The alleviation of physical pain, relaxation and pleasant reverie, alleviation of anxiety and tension, and euphoric spasms are immediate effects of this drug.
What are narcotics (opium and its derivatives)?
500
The lifetime prevalence of alcohol dependence.
What is 13.4%?
500
The center of psychoactive drug activation in the brain
What is the mesocorticolimbic dopamine pathway (MCLP)?
500
The synthetic narcotic used in treatment for heroin that is equally addictive physiologically but does not produce serious psychological impairment.
What is methadone?
500
Different types of psychosocial measures used in the treatment of alcohol dependence? (4 types)
What is group therapy, environmental interventions, behavior therapy/CBT, and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?