Mental health and addiction
True or False : Resilience is somebody's ability to recovery quickly from difficulties.
True
Things that increase a person's chances of developing substance abuse or dependency.
What are risk factors?
2 skills used to enhance recovery:
1. Meditation and exercise
2. Eating excessively and fight club
3. Talk it out with you drug dealer and or switching to a safer drug
Meditation and exercise
A strong desire. The inundating thought or emotion that feels like you're being pulled, equated with urges
What is craving
The major organ that is directly affected the most by drug use.
What is the brain?
Drugs change the brain's:
A) Structure
B) Function
C) Both
C) Both
Name 3 risk factors for addiction.
Genetics, environment, early age, stress/trauma, and mental health hx..
Meaning of the acronym MAT
What is Medication Assisted Treatment
Give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something. Examples: making excuses for someone else, giving them money, calling in sick for them.
What is enabling or codependent behaviors
The brain finishes developing once you reach this age.
What is 25?
Feelings of worry, racing thoughts and restlessness
What is anxiety
These are things that can decrease a person's chance of developing an addiction?
What are abstinence, drug education and developing healthy coping skills
Refraining from all mood altering substances.
What is sobriety/abstinence?
The process by which the body rids itself of drugs
What is detox/withdrawal?
Mouth, Liver, Throat, Lungs, Skin, Kidney, Bladder, Heart, and Brain
What are parts of the body that can be affected by drug use?
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or thoughts of hopelessness, and excessive sleep
What is depression
The younger people use substances, the less chance they have at becoming addicted. True or false?
What is False. The younger one begins using the more chance they have at becoming addicted.
The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness, something you often do at the end of group
What is gratitude
Is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is dopamine
Hepatitis, Heart Disease, Kidney disease, Obesity, Mental Health disorders, HIV, Cancer, a Stroke, etc.
What are illnesses that can result from drug use?
An evidenced based technique proven affective for managing depression:
A. hula hooping
B. Ruminating
c. Fight Club
D. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
D. CBT
Name these three common 'gateway' drugs?
What is Alcohol, marijuana, nicotine
A special person that helps you work through the Steps in a mutual recovery group and keeps you accountability in your recovery?
What is a sponsor?
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information; important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in
What is a relapse prevention plan
Alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine, inhalants, PCP and hallucinogens can result in this medical condition related to withdrawal and drug toxicity.
What is Seizures?