Definitions and Terms
Self-Assessment
Biological Aspects of Addiction
Substance Use Disorders
Effects of Alcohol and Drugs
100

This term is used to describe the use of mood-altering drugs that interfere with or negatively affect a person's life.

What is Substance Use Disorder?

100

This exercise helps individuals determine the severity of their substance use disorder.

What is the Self-Assessment Exercise?

100

Substance use disorders affect these natural chemicals in the brain.


What are Brain Chemicals?

100

The use of mood-altering drugs that mess up a person's life defines this disorder.

What is Substance Use Disorder?

100

True or False: Alcohol can only have negative effects on physical health.

What is False? (It affects both physical and mental health)

200

Mood-altering drugs are also known as this type of drug

What are Psychoactive Drugs?

200

One of the learner objectives for the Self-Assessment is to understand how these criteria apply to you.

What are Diagnostic Criteria for Addiction?

200

This part of the brain is often altered by addiction, affecting pleasure and reward systems.

What is the Limbic System?

200

This term refers to drugs that change a person’s mood or feeling.

What are Mood-Altering Drugs?

200

One major negative effect of drug use on personal life is seen in this area.

What is Work, Home, or School?

300

These are the three major types of mood-altering drugs.

What are Stimulants, Depressants, and Hallucinogens?

300

True or False: The self-assessment exercise asks you to honestly address the ways substance use has affected your life.

What is True?

300

The negative physical effects of substance use disorder are a key focus of this session.

What is Session 1 of the Living in Balance program?

300

Alcohol is categorized under this type of mood-altering drug.

What are Depressants?

300

These brain chemicals are often disrupted by alcohol and other drugs

What are Neurotransmitters?

400

This term describes the severe category of problems related to substance use.

What is Addiction?

400

This session encourages exploring the negative impacts of substances on you and those around you.

What is Session 1 of the Living in Balance program?

400

Understanding the effects of alcohol and drugs on brain chemicals helps in treating this.

What is Addiction?

400

An example of a stimulant, a type of mood-altering drug.

What is Cocaine?

400

Substance use disorder can negatively impact this, which involves a person’s mental and emotional state.

What is Psychological Health?

500

Alcohol falls into this category of mood-altering drugs.

What are Depressants?

500

Conducting an addiction self-assessment helps understand these effects of substance use.

What are Negative Effects on Your Life?

500

Addiction affects these biological processes in the body

What are Biological Processes?

500

A type of drug that alters perceptions and can cause hallucinations.

What are Hallucinogens?

500

The effects of alcohol and drugs on brain chemistry are a key topic in this part of Session 1.

What is Biological Aspects of Addiction?