Brain & Neurotransmitters
These are naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between neurons and are involved in feeling, thinking, and behavior.
Neurotransmitters
What is characterized by severe problems related to compulsive and habitual use of mood-altering substances?
Addiction
What are the feelings, experiences, and physical reactions that can occur when someone cuts down or stops using a substance?
Withdrawal symptoms
You're stressed and thinking, “I need something to take the edge off.” What should you consider instead?
Healthy coping
What occurs when two drugs have similar physical effects and one may substitute for the other?
Cross-tolerance
What is the physical adaptation that occurs when the body becomes accustomed to prolonged exposure to a mood-altering drug?
Physical dependence
What refers to the use of mood-altering drugs that interferes with or negatively affects a person's life?
Substance Use Disorder
What should someone seek if they have concerns about potentially serious withdrawal symptoms?
Medical assessment APRN
Before making a risky decision, what should you think about besides, “This seems like a good idea right now”?
Consequences
What is it called when someone replaces their primary drug with another drug that is not cross-tolerant?
Drug switching
What can alter neurotransmitter levels and potentially create an imbalance while the body adapts to the substance?
Alcohol and other drugs
A psychological defense mechanism that protects people from seeing harsh realities of addiction.
Denial
What process may lead someone to increase the amount of a substance they use in an attempt to obtain the same effect?
Tolerance
You're angry and about to send a 17-paragraph text at 2 a.m. What recovery skill might save you?
Pause before acting
What pattern involves using stimulant and depressant drugs together or in response to each other's effects?
Upper-downer cycle
What is the basic function of neurotransmitters?
Messages between neurons
What do you pick up to check one thing and 45 minutes later wonder what you were originally trying to do?
Your phone
What concept describes increased sensitivity to a substance, potentially resulting in an unusually strong reaction?
Reverse tolerance / Kindling
Your old using buddy says, “Come on, just one time.” What might your recovery self say?
Boundaries
What are three types of psychoactive substances discussed in the material?
Stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens
Neurotransmitters are involved in which three general areas: feeling, thinking, and what?
Brain and behavior
What recovery skill involves stopping, thinking, and asking yourself, “Is this going to help me tomorrow, or am I going to regret this by breakfast?”
Positive decision-making
Switching from one substance to another automatically means the person has solved their substance-use problem.
False
I sleep 16 hours a day, ignore you when you call me, and somehow believe I pay the rent. Who am I?
A cat
What is the place people pay money to visit and then spend 20 minutes deciding what song to listen to?
The gym