Substance Abuse
True or False: an individual's mental health status, genetic disposition, and frequency of use influence how quickly they become addicted to heroin.
True
Traumatic events such as an accident, assault, military combat or natural disaster can have lasting effects on an individual’s mental health. Many individuals will have short term responses to life-threatening events; however, some will develop longer term symptoms that can lead to a diagnosis of what?
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
This celebrity who is in recovery starred in multiple Disney Channel Show.
Demi Lovato
Addiction quickly becomes a lifestyle. A person in active addiction spends more and more time searching for drugs/alcohol resulting in what?
Isolation
This movie is about a journalist who takes her reputation of the life of the party too far.
Hint: Starring Sandra Bullock
28 days
The use of marijuana before what age may have an impact on brain development?
25
What is the term for when someone experiences a mental illness and a substance use disorder simultaneously?
This celebrity starred in the tv show "Friends"
Matthew Perry
Those in active addiction tend to choose their use over their family or friends resulting in what?
Damaged relationships.
This movie explores the life of a real-estate agent with a cocaine habit.
Hint: Starring Michael Keaton
Clean and Sober
______ is the use of FDA-approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
50% of mental health problems begin by what age?
14
This celebrity was introduced to drugs and alcohol by his father at a young age.
Robert Downey Jr.
Those who are in active addiction tend to do whatever is needed to achieve the high or drugs resulting in what?
Criminal behavior
This movie is about the founder of AA.
My Name is Bill W
Name three signs of opioid overdose.
• Small and constricted “pinpoint pupils”
• Falling asleep or loss of consciousness
• Slow and shallow breathing
• Choking or gurgling sounds,
• Limp body,
• Pale, blue, or cold skin.
What percentage of individuals with severe mental illness report being victims of a violent crime within a given year?
More than 25%
This celebrity died from an overdose in a bathtub after suffering from years of addiction.
Aaron Carter
Drug abuse tends to dull the senses which results in?
Stagnation
This movie is about a basketball star whose best friend dies of cancer
Name five things that will affect how many drinks it will take an individual to get intoxicated.
What year was Mental Health Awareness Month created in the United States?
1949
This celebrity started his recovery after his friend who was an avid AIDs activist passed away.
Sir Elton John
Drugs and alcohol along with the lifestyle it comes with can be expensive, resulting in what?
Financial Distress
This movie is based on the life of Amanda Wendler.
Hint: Released on Hulu
Four Good Days