ADDICTION SCIENCE
The brain chemical that is involved in reward and motivation?
What is Dopamine?
A person, place or situation that makes someone want to use
What is a Trigger?
The drug found in beer, wine, and liqour
The ability to recognize and understand your emotions
What is Emotional Awareness, or Emotional Intelligence?
A mutual recovery-based self-help group which is often abbreviated as "AA"
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Replacing one addictive substance or behavior with another
What is Cross Addiction
When a person needs more of a substance to get the same effect?
What is Tolerance?
Gives you too much time to be with your own thoughts
What is Isolation and Boredom?
The category of drugs including caffeine, cocaine, and methamphetamine
What is Stimulants?
Paying attention to the present moment without judgement
What is Mindfulness?
A mutual self-help group which blends mindfulness and Buddhism with the message of recovery
What is Refuge Recovery?
True or false: Someone in recovery can develop an unhealthy relationship with gambling, shopping, or gaming.
True
The symptoms that occur when a person stops using a substance their body is adapted to.
What is Withdrawal (or Detox)?
A a plan for recognizing and responding to relapse warning signs called?
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
The category of drugs that includes heroin, morhpine, and fentanyl
What is Opioids?
An unhelpful or inaccurate pattern of thinking
What is Cognitive Distortions?
A disease or behavioral disorder which has the abbreviation SUD
What is Substance Use Disorder (Addiction)
The term for continuing to engage in a rewarding behavior even when it causes significant negative consequences?
What is Compulsive Behavior
A part of the brain helps with planning and decision-making?
What is Prefrontal cortex?
A healthy action used to manage stress or difficult emotions?
What is Coping Skills?
The category of drugs which slow activity in the central nervous system.
What is Depressants?
The ability to manage emotions without letting them control your actions
What is Emotional Regulation?
This condition can occur weeks or months after stopping alcohol or drugs and may include mood swings, anxiety, sleep problems, and cravings that come and go
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
This activity releases endorphins, reduces stress, improves mood, and is often recommended as part of a strong recovery program.
What is Exercise?
The brain's remarkable ability to change and adapt through experience.
What is Neuroplasticity?
It is called this when someone returns to substance use after a period of recovery
What is Relapse?
The term which describes using multiple substances, either together, or over a perioid of time, increasing overall risk
What is Polysubstance use?
The practice of changing an unhelpful thought by looking at a situation from another perspective
What is Cognitive Reframing?
The people, professionals, resources, and hobbies that work together to aid a person's recovery
What is a Support System?
"Exposure to ________ is associated with drug addiction in humans and can induce relapse and craving."
What is Stress