Street Names
What is the Date Rape Drug?
What is Rohypnol?
When a person that they have a problem does not acknowledge
What is Precontemplation stage?
A_____________ is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or other serious problem
What is an intervention?
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse consequences
What is addiction?
These are painful symptoms of the body physically adjusting to the absence of drugs
What are withdrawal symptoms?
What are Z-Bars?
What is Xanax?
When a person is aware that a problem exists and are seriously thinking about overcoming it but have not made the commitment to take action yet
What is Contemplation Stage?
A form of treatment where the patient lives in a recovery facility
What is Residential Treatment?
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it
What is denial?
This drug works for at least 45 minutes by blocking the reuptake of dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine
What is cocaine?
Blotter
What is Acid?
When the individual modifies their behavior, experiences, and environment in order to over come their problems
What is the Action Stage?
a point in treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is detox?
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is detox?
Morphine and heroin are types of these highly addictive depressants
What are opiates?
Angel dust?
What is PCP?
When the person starts gathering information and begins planning. This stage is the most important because 50% of the people who attempt this stage and skip this stage will relapse within 21 days
What is the Preparation Stage?
A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently in a therapeutic session that share similar issues that help each other through a recovery process
What is a support group?
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse
What is a trigger?
Addiction, respiratory failure, vomiting, drowsiness, reduction of pain, diarrhea
What are effects of opiates?
Triple C
What is Dextromethorphan?
The stage in which people work to prevent relapse. This stage extends from 6 months to an indeterminate period of time
What is the Maintenance Stage?
A slip from recovery where the person returns back to their old habit/ addictive behavior
What is a relapse?
A normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect.
What is tolerance?
_____________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that play a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is dopamine?