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Vocabulary
Stages of Change
12 Step Recovery
Trends/Statistics
Potpourri
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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
100

"I am planning on making some changes in my using behaviors"

Preparation

100

A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/addictive behavior

What is relapse

100

Drug overdose deaths since 2000 in the US

700,000

100

___________ are used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy.

Amphetamines

200

A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, refuse to admit that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.

What is denial

200

"I have been doing well for over a year with my recovery"

Maintenance

200

What step says, "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a higher power".

Step 3

200

Men are  _____ times as likely as women to die as a result of alcohol abuse.

3

200

What is the pleasure chemical in the brain that plays a major role in addiction?

Dopamine

300

A group of symptoms that occur upon the abrupt discontinuation or decrease in the intake of pharmaceutical or recreational drugs

What is Withdrawal

300

"I don't have a problem"

Pre-contemplation

300

Which step asks you to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your past?

Step four

300

How many Americans die from the effects of alcohol each year?

95,000

300

What group of drugs does benzodiazepines belong to?

Depressants

400

Trying to protect an addict from facing the consequences of their drug related behavior.

enabling

400

"I made a plan and now I am starting to work on my sobriety"

Action

400
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is Detox
400

Opioids are a factor in what percentage of overdose deaths?

72%

400

What state has the nation's highest rate of drug overdose deaths?

West Virginia

500

Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.

What is Tolerance

500

"I am not sure, but I may have a problem with my drinking"

Contemplation

500

What step says, "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it".

Step 10

500

Number of adult Americans who currently use marijuana?

55 million

500
People who become overly concerned with another's addiction problem and feel driven to fix or control it
What are codependents