A primary, progressive, chronic process with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and outcome. It involves compulsion, loss of control, and continued use despite negative consequences.
What is addiction
100
These drugs energize the nervous system by making the nerves act more quickly than normal.
What are stimulant drugs?
100
Something in the world that makes a demand on a person. An even, a person, a law, a rule, or a request that requires person to react in some way.
Who is a stressor?
100
Feelings of severe despondency and dejection.
What is depression?
100
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?
200
A process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect of when the amount of a drug needs to be increased to have the same effect.
What is tolerance?
200
Drugs whose primary action is to alter cognition and perception, typically by agonizing serotonin receptors.
What are psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs?
200
Stress that comes from a disagreement that occurs between two opposing forces - one against the other.
What is conflict?
200
A feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined.
What is guilt?
200
Feelings, experiences, people, places, and things that you associate with your drinking or drug use.
What are triggers?
300
A psychological defense mechanism that protects people from seeing the harsh realities of their addiction.
What is denial?
300
These drugs slow the nervous system, which causes behavior and thoughts to slow down as well.
What are depressants?
300
A defense mechanism in which people return to ways of dealing with the world that they have long since outgrown.
What is regression?
300
A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined.
What is fear?
300
Techniques used for switching your thinking to avoid triggers becoming cravings.
What are thought stopping techniques?
400
A situation in which the body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug.
What is Reverse Tolerance?
400
Analgesic alkaloid compounds found naturally in the plant Papaver somniferum.
What are opiates?
400
A defense mechanism in which people do not let themselves think about threatening or painful thoughts, feelings, desires, memories, or beliefs.
What is repression?
400
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
What is anxiety?
400
Resuming the use of a drug or a chemical substance after one or more periods of abstinence.
What is relapse?
500
The two parts of the brain affected in the process of addiction.
What are the rational brain and the emotional brain?
500
Volatile substances that have psychoactive (mind-altering) properties such as spray paints, markers, glues, and cleaning fluids.
What are inhalants?
500
Stress that comes from encountering obstacles that block one from reaching a goal. Some obstacles are external, such as losing a job, and some obstacles are internal such as guilt over spending the rent money on cocaine.
What is frustration?
500
The painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another.
What is shame?
500
A comprehensive outline which accounts for social interactions, knowledge of emotional triggers, and the development of positive coping mechanisms