Vocab
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is Addiction?
A chemical in the brain that makes you feel good.
What is dopamine?
An ___________ is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or other serious problem.
What is an intervention?
TRUE OR FALSE? People with addiction are NOT responsible for their behavior.
False
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger?
Chemical "messengers" in your brain. Their job is to carry chemical signals from one neuron to the next
What is a Neurotransmitter?
____is the highest level of rehab services for patients who are diagnosed with alcohol addiction or other drug addiction.
What is inpatient treatment.
This model of addiction adopts a medical view point and suggests that addiction is an illness that a person has.
What is disease model?
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is Detox?
What is the pre frontal cortex?
A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/ addictive behavior
What is relapse?
___ is the ability to delay gratification, resisting short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals
What is will power?
When someone with a substance use or alcohol use disorder is in ----, it doesn't mean they can't see the way they're using alcohol and drugs. They may instead see the drugs and alcohol as an escape from their problems.
What is Denial?
This brain chemical regulates mood and social behavior, appetite, digestion, sleep, memory and sexual drive.
What is Serotonin?
Name TWO coping skills a person can use to assist them through their recovery.
1) meditation
2) yoga
3) journaling
4)exercise
5)other
Name ONE risk factor that makes you more susceptible to addiction?
Family history (genetics), untreated mental illness (depression/anxiety), trauma history.
The need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces less biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is Tolerance?
This part of the brain plays a role in stressful feelings like anxiety, irritability and unease.
What is the extended amygdala?
____ are traditionally residential facilities in which the community structure and function are agents of change, and 12-step–based self-help programs guide individual recovery.
What is a therapeutic community?
Name TWO advantages of disease model?
1) Becomes a health issue vs legal issue
2) Allows addicts to understand their behavior
3) Offers a treatment approach to addiction
4) Removes shame