What are possible health problems related to drugs and/or alcohol?
100
Having a biological parent with alcoholism increases the risk for this.
What is alcoholism?
200
The cause for a person's initial response or tolerance.
What is heredity?
200
Our social group relies on high-risk drinking or drug use for its normal social functioning.
What is social dependence?
200
People in this phase generally have a "take-it-or-leave-it" feeling about alcohol.
What are characteristics of phase 1?
200
What we learn or experience in one mental or emotional state is best recalled in that same state.
What is state dependent learning?
200
Research indicates that one to two drinks per day does not increase risk for most people.
What is true?
300
Don't drink alone
Don't drink in the morning
Avoid hard liquor
Space your drinks an hour apart
Drink Coffee
Take a Cold Shower
What are common myths to prevent alcohol related health problems?
300
No more than 1 drink in an hour.
No more than 2 drinks if daily.
And, no more than 3 on any day.
What is 1-2-3 guidelines?
300
Anticipate alcohol/drug use.
Increased tolerance.
What are characteristics of phase 2?
300
Periods of alcohol induced amnesia.
What are memory blackouts?
300
It is low risk for people to be impaired as long as they do not do it very often.
What is false?
400
Any change in our mental or physical functioning that increases risk for problems.
What is impairment?
400
A person can either return to low-risk choices or move onto addiction in this phase.
What is phase 3: psychological dependence?
400
These defenses are normal but they help people hold on to behaviors that they want even though the behaviors may be harmful.
What are psychological defenses?
400
In this phase, there is an increase of integration and preoccupation with drugs and/or alcohol.
What is phase 3?
400
As phase 4 continues, it may be hard to predict what effect the alochol or drugs will have.
What is true?
500
Blackouts erase memory of some of the problems
Psychological defenses trick us
Impaired abstract thinking distorts cause and effect
These are reasons people do not think...........
They have a drinking problem.
500
Psychological factors
Social Factors
What are factors that influence the choices we make?
500
Periodic loss of control and varying degrees of withdrawal are indicators of this.
What is physical addiction?
500
Blackouts
Social dependence
Change of lifestyle
What are three negative outcomes that can result from making high-risk choices in phase 3?
500
Body, Brain, Biology + Choices = Alcoholism or Addiction