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100

People who abuse drugs are weak-willed. They could control their craving for drugs if they tried. True or False?

False

100

A chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.

Addiction

100
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
100
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
100

After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.

What is Marijuana?

200

Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.

What is a coping skill?

200
When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than either drug alone.
What is cocaine? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
200
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
200

Run, Hide, Fight are the responses for which code?

Code Silver: Armed Shooter

200

Alcohol lowers or increases your body's temperature? 

Lowers

300
One of these prescribed and federally regulated medications can help an opiate addicted individual start recovering from their addiction and structuring his or her life again.
What is Methadone, Suboxone, and Naltrexone.
300

Vomiting, blacking out, passing out, cold/clammy skin, slurring, lack of muscle coordination.

Signs of an alcohol overdose. 

300

Frameworks, Safeguards, and Transitions 

The three clinical curriculum tracks
300

Exploring an individuals health history and current physical condition is a tenet of which ASAM dimension?

Dimension 2: Biomedical Conditions and Complications

300

This code is called for non-emergency medical concerns such as patient vomiting (anywhere other than bathroom), patient fall without loss of consciousness, or any bodily fluids mishap.

Code Purple: Rapid Response

400

 The average age individuals experiment with drugs

13

400

Exploring an individuals unique relationship with relapse or continued use or problems is an aspect of which ASAM dimension?

Dimension 5: Relapse, Continued Use, or Continued Potential Problem

400

____% of all suicides involve alcohol and/or drugs.

50%

400

Drugs that slow down the functions of the central nervous system and make the user less aware of the environment. Some examples include alcohol, sleeping pills (sedative hypnotics), and pain killers (narcotic analgesics).

Depressants

400

One of the most effective means of treatment for substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders. A therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

500

Acceptance, hope, faith, courage, honesty, patience, humility, willingness, brotherly love, integrity, self-discipline, and service

12 Spiritual Principles of Recovery

500
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects, and may result in dangerously low blood pressure.
What is an inhalant? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
500

The existence of both a mental health disorder and substance use disorder

Dual diagnosis/Co-occurring disorder

500
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
500

Most drugs affect the brain's ________ causing euphoria as well as flooding it with the chemical messenger dopamine.

Reward circuit