Brain and Addiction
A substance that can change the way a person feels or functions
What is a drug
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 1
Women are 2x more likely to develop a substance use disorder than men
False
35% Men and 18% Women
_____________ is an excessive reliance on other people for approval and a sense of identity. It is an excessive reliance on other people for approval and a sense of identity.
Co-Dependency
____________are the behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that you use to adjust to the changes that occur in your life.
What is Coping Skills
Drugs can damage nerve cells in this organ
What is the brain
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 8
Everyone who experiences/exposed to trauma will develop PTSD
False
Up to 1/3 of people exposed to trauma develop PTSD
__________is a style of communication in which the individual doesn't express their feelings, needs, or opinions.
Passive communication
What are the three automatic responses that occur when we perceive danger.
What is Fight, Flight, or Freeze
When a person needs more of the same drug to feel the effects
What is tolerance
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 2
About 50% of mental health problems begin before age 14
True
_______ are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify for themselves what are reasonable,safe and permissible ways for other people to behave around them and how they will response when someone steps outside those limits.
Boundaries
This unhealthy coping skill can lead to dwelling on triggers and increased feelings of loneliness
What is isolation
Returning to drug use after quitting
What is relapse
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 10
Grounding is the same as mindfulness
False
Grounding is a set of simple strategies to detach from emotional pain (ex: drug cravings, self-harm impulses, anger, sadness)
___________ communicators often mutter to themselves rather than confront the person or issue, use sarcasm, and deny there is a problem
Passive-Aggressive
____________are faulty patterns of thinking that are self-defeating. They occur when the things you are thinking do not match up with reality.
What is Thinking Errors, Cognitive Distortions, Stinking Thinking, Negative thoughts, etc.
Name the neurotransmitter in the brain commonly affected by drugs
what is dopamine
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 4
Prescription Drugs (Opioids) is the cause of more than half of all drug overdose deaths in the U.S. each year
True
Identify 2 different types of boundaries
Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Spiritual, and Sexual
The student fails a test and now is afraid of never finishing college. This is a example of what mistake in thinking.
What is catastrophizing