Is 5 drinks or more for men or 4 drinks or more for women
What is binge drinking?
100
When others around the addict end up directly or indirectly supporting the addiction of the addict
What is enabling?
100
All addiction interacts with the brain and this specific neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
100
Gabour Mate clearly explains that the brain is made more vulnerable through the quality of this aspect of relationship to care givers in childhood.
What is attatchment?
100
In United Sates and Canada, this movement has motivated the federal governments to spend millions each year based on the assumption that if people don't get the drug, there would be addiction.
What is the "War on Drugs"?
200
When drinking, this body chemical rises to nearly twice the amount in women than in men?
What is testosterone?
200
To be in a relationship with an addict involves some degree of this.
What is codependency?
200
The brain understanding of love and attachment comes through this neurotransmitter.
What are opioids?
200
Alexander explains this to be the main cause for increasing amounts of addiction in western society.
What is dislocation?
200
This political movement of the early 1900's, banned alcohol and its production in many parts of Canada.
What is "prohibition" or the "temperance movement"?
300
The term for when a fetus is affected by alcohol but without facial features.
What is Fetal Alcohol Effect or "FAE"?
300
Growing up in a family with an alcoholic has huge ramifications on the children. One perspective to the impact is the "pathological" model that sees the damage in it. Another model sees the strengths and resourcefulness in these children.
What is "Resiliency" model?
300
The space between neurons where substances of addiction interfere with the brain's communication system.
What is a synapse?
300
Gabour Mate describes this as the quality of the presence of a care giver in a child's life - how well the adult is on the same frequency with the child.
What is attunement?
300
Today many drugs may be laced with this cheap, powerful, synthetic opiate.
What is Fentanyl?
400
The risk of developing an AUD is 4 to 6 times greater at this age than a person who starts drinking at 21.
What is 15?
400
One of the unspoken rules that many codependents have learned in their family of origin is not to do this - a feature core to a developing adolescent.
What is "feel"?
400
The term used for the property of the brain to be able to change and adapt its internal structure.
What is neuroplasticity?
400
Bruce Alexander states this is why dislocation is ever increasing in North America and other 1st world countries.
What is the globalization of free market economies?
400
This drug is the number one killer of all drugs ever produced.
What is "tobacco" or "cigarettes"?
500
The term used for how the liver changes the alcohol chemicals so the alcohol can leave the body.
What is biotransformation?
500
This increases your risk of addiction due to having family members who are addicts. The more addicts in you family the great this is in you.
What is genetic predisposition?
500
Gabour Mate explains that all addictions interplay with this part of the brain.
What is the "mesolimbic system" or "reward pathway"?
500
Both Mate and Alexander explain we all need safe positive connection with caring people whether on an individual basis or within community. This quality impacts identity. It means we "fit in" or "have our place" in community.
What is "belonging"?
500
According to Mate, those addicted to this drug have been found to have significant impairment in their decision making ability due to the drug's impact on the orbitofrontal cortex of the brain.