What is malnutrition, stomach pains, or cirrhosis of the liver.
100
High ranking mental disorder often comorbid with alcoholism.
What is depression?
100
A sociocultural causal factor of alcohol abuse/dependence.
What is religion, geographic location, or social influences.
100
Behavior based on the pathological need for a substance or activity.
What is addictive behavior?
100
Drugs once widely used to induce sleep.
What are barbiturates?
200
Increased feelings of alertness and confidence are the result of these drugs.
What is cocaine and amphetamines?
200
Lifetime prevalence for alcohol abuse in the U.S.
What is 13.4 % ?
200
Two biological causal factors of alcohol abuse and dependence.
What are genetics and learning factors?
200
LSD, Mescaline, Ecstasy, and Psilocybin are all examples of this type of drug.
What are hallucinogens?
200
The term recommended by the World Health Organization to replace the term "alcoholism".
What is alcohol dependence syndrome?
300
Refers to physical symptoms such as sweating, tremors, and tension that accompany abstinence from the drug.
What is withdrawal?
300
Percentage of alcohol abusers who suffer from at least one coexisting mental disorder.
What is 37 % ?
300
This psychosocial causal factor is associated with early adolescent substance use.
What is parent substance use (or failures in parental guidance) ?
300
The center of psychoactive drug activation in the brain.
What is the mesocorticolimbic dopamine pathway (MCLP) ?
300
The two drugs that are easy to abuse and readily available.
What are caffeine and nicotine?
400
The percent range of heavy drinkers who develop cirrhosis of the liver.
What is 15-30% ?
400
Percentage of adult pathological gamblers worldwide.
What is 1-2%
400
Psychosocial causal factor that may serve to maintain the pattern of excessive drinking.
What is marital relationship?
400
An involuntary recurrence of perceptual distortions or hallucinations weeks or even months after an individual has taken LSD.
What is a flashback?
400
Areas of the brain stimulated during low alcohol consumption.
What are "pleasure areas" ?
500
Poor judgement and gradual personality deterioration are symptoms resulting from excessive use of this substance.
What is alcohol?
500
Disorders that most commonly co-occur with the most severe pathological gambling problems.
What are substance-abuse disorders?
500
Phenomenon in which certain ethnic groups, particularly Asians and Native Americans, experience abnormal physiological reactions to alcohol.
What is "alcohol flush reaction" ?
500
Treatment in which clients are taught to recognize the apparently irrelevant decisions that serve as early warning warning signals of the possibility of relapse.
What is relapse prevention treatment?
500
Organization started in 1935 by Dr. Bob and Bill W.