Education
What is the average age children experiment with drugs?
What is 13 years old.
New members of AA are suggested to do ___ meetings in ___ days.
What is 90 & 90.
According to CDC, which year had the highest overdose death toll in U.S history?
What is 2021.
People, Places & Things are an example of what?
What are triggers
Provide an example of a "Co-Occuring Disorder".
Alcoholism & Anxiety
Depression & Heroine Abuse
Etc...
In the United States, more people now die from __________ overdoses than from heroin and cocaine combined.
What are synthetic opioids.
What is this prayer? God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the Serenity Prayer
What results in: 1)Lowered inhibitions 2)Decreased control over motor skills 3)Liver failure; cirrhosis 7)Kidney disease 8)Blackouts
What are the consequences of alcoholism
People in your _______ Team: 1.Medical doctors 2.Nurses 3.Psychologists 4.Educators 5.Social Workers 6.YOU 7. Counselors
What is a treatment team
Which disorder is described as experiencing obsessive thoughts that lead to repetitive behaviors?
What is OCD
Name (2) things someone can be addicted to that are not drugs or alcohol.
a.Gambling
b.Food
What syndrome can occur if a mother drinks often during pregnancy and alcohol from the mothers blood passes through the umbilical cord?
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
The leading cause of preventable death in the U.S?
Smoking.
What are these a symptom of? talking very quickly, elevated mood, feeling full of energy, delusions, feeling of grandiosity, decreased need for sleep.
What is Mania
What is the 1st step in AA's 12 steps?
What is "We admitted we were powerless of alcohol and our lives had become unmanageable".
The following problems most often occur because of what drug(s)? -Increase in violence and aggression -induced psychosis -increase in Respiratory problems -Risk for HIV, HEP C and TB -Damage to physical appearance
What is Methamphetamine/cocaine addiction
What is usually the first stage of treatment?
What is Detoxification
Coping Skills.
The most commonly abused drug across the nation (not alcohol)
What is Marijuana
What is the 1930's
Alcohol, benzodoazepines and barbiturates are what type of drugs?
What are depressants.
(They lower neurotransmission levels in various areas of the brain)
Addiction is a disease of which organ?
What is Brain.
The two most common mental health disorders associated with substance abuse?
1. Anxiety
2. Depression