Addiction facts
Someone who uses substances with no negative consequences
Social user
Keeps us alive for the next 15 seconds
What is the mid brain?
Increased hormone released during times of stress, the opposite of Dopamine
What is corticotropin releasing factor (CRF)?
Part of the brain devoted to incentives
What is the reward center?
Theory based on people becoming addicts due to their decisions
What is Choice theory?
What is the definition of addiction?
Genetic, reward, memory, and choice centers
What are the parts of the brain involved in addiction.
Of the two types of "responders" mentioned in the film, the type more likely to become alcoholic.
What are low responders?
The part of the brain that receives Glutamate and stores information.
What is the memory center?
Theory based on people having a part of their brain changed by substances, thus affecting their choices
What is the disease theory of addiction?
The prison system
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Noticeable, important or prominent
What is salience?
A persons's biological code that may predispose or make them more resilient toward addiction
What are genetics?
Organ, Defect, Symptoms
What is the disease model?
The notion of an increase in the vulnerability to develop another form of substance use disorder following recovering from a different substance use disorder.
What is cross addiction?
All drugs of abuse cause the release or this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
The inability to derive normal pleasure from those things that have been pleasurable in the past.
What is anhedonia?
Addiction processing at this level arrives at the prefrontal cortex and is the accumulation of multiple parts of the system becoming dysfunctional.
What is the choice center?
Given enough motivation, the addict can choose to change
What is choice theory's argument?
Daily double:
Plants
What is the base for all drugs?
In relation to memory and learning, this is the most abundant neurochemical in the brain.
What is glutamate?
Neuroscientists term for the capacity at which our brains are meant to experience pleasure
What is hedonic set point or pleasure threshold?
Continued use of drugs and alcohol cause this to move higher than it should be
What is the pleasure threshold, or hedonic set point.
Chills, cravings, physical pain, involuntary thoughts
What is withdrawal?