Substances
This category of substance is known for the effects of increased alertness, euphoria, excitement elevated pulse rate and blood pressure.
What is a stimulant?
This presence of a mental health disorder along with chaotic patterns of substance use can complicate diagnosis and treatment.
What is comorbidity or comorbid disorders?
This occurs when the brain and body become dependent on the drug as a perceived necessity for survival and will react negatively when the substance is not used.
What is withdrawal?
This type of treatment uses medications to treat substance use disorders and comorbid disorders.
What is psychopharmacotherapy?
This category of substances is known for producing the effects of disorientation, decreased reaction time and coordination.
What is a depressant?
This type of vulnerability is passed down from family members who also have a substance abuse disorder.
What is biological or genetic vulnerability?
What stage of substance abuse recovery involves resolving intrapersonal and interpersonal difficulties and relapse prevention planning?
What is maintenance?
This type of treatment targets faulty thoughts and beliefs that underlie the young persons' use of substances.
What is CBT?
This category of drug produces the effects of decreased inhibitions, euphoria, increased appetite, decreased attention and memory.
What is cannabis?
This protective factor describes a child’s ability to positively recover from adversity.
What is resilience?
What neurotransmitter is greatly increased when individuals take substances?
What is dopamine?
This type of treatment uses a coordinated system of rewards that are tied to expected behaviors to reinforce positive behaviors and reduce the occurrence of negative behaviors.
What is contingency management?
This category of drugs produces the effects of hallucinations, altered perceptual experiences, and increased emotions.
What is a hallucinogen?
Youth who lack these protective factors may be more receptive to peer pressure surrounding substances, as they are a means for social acceptance.
Who are youth who lack social skills or a strong social support network.
Which area of the brain that is still developing for children and adolescents is responsible for increased risk taking behaviors and ignorance of long term consequences?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This type of treatment focuses on identifying and capitalizing on motivation for change in the client’s talk.
What is motivational interviewing?
This type of substance is known to produce the effects of drowsiness and euphoria, slowed breathing and nausea.
What is an opioid?
What style of parenting provides the strongest protection of youth from developing an SUD?
What is a supportive and authoritative family that provides warmth and clear rules?
This process occurs when Alcohol and/or drugs produce intense spikes in dopamine beyond what the body is able to produce, naturally locking these highly rewarding experiences into the brain via glutamate.
What are the neurochemical reward pathways?
This community based intervention focuses on replacing the people, places, and things that young people associated with their substance use with more positive people, places, and things that reinforce abstinence from use.
What is the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach?