The Brain
Drugs and Alcohol can negatively impact the part of your teenage brain that is not developed until your mid 20's which is in charge of Information Processing, Thinking, Speaking, Problem Solving, Making decisions, and sensing the environment.
What is the Cerebral Cortex (including the Prefrontal Cortex)
Name 2 out of the 7 Emotional Addictions that Often Precede Chemical Addictions.
Fear, Anger, Grief, Depression, Desire, Impulsiveness and Pleasure
Name one of the Stages of Change and define it.
Pre-Contemplation: Not acknowledging there is a problem (denial),
Contemplation: Acknowledging there's a problem
Preparation: Getting ready to change/exploring options
Action: Changing Behavior
Maintenance: Maintaining the Behavior/Change
Relapse: returning to old behaviors
Drugs affect people of the same height and weight in much the same way
False height and body weight are just two of the factors which determine how a person is affected:
Environment, emotion, etc.
This powdery Substance when smoked results in a light euphoric feeling and a loss of coordination and judgement
What is WEED
The development of negative symptoms that occur upon the abrupt discontinuation or decrease in intake of prescribed medications or recreational/illicit drugs.
Withdrawl
Positive Statements that describe a desired situation, and which are repeated many times, in order to impress the subconscious mind and trigger it into positive action
What are AFFIRMATIONS
Children with ADHD who are given Ritalin a medication become addicted.
False: Usually children who abuse the drug become addicted
This peer will not forget what after graduation
What is Mr. Angelo's Harm Reduction Hoodie
Who is Windy
The name of the Neurotransmitter that regulates movement, emotion, motivation and pleasure.
What is Dopamine
Name 2 of the Most Common Recovery Fears"
What is Relapse, Fear of Feeling, Fear of Shame and Ridicule, Loss of...., Fear of Loneliness and Boredom, Facing Feelings, Fear of failure, Fear of Responsibilities of Sobriety, Fear of Success,
The Story of self-centeredness
King/Queen Baby
Crystal Meth and can cause irreversible brain damage
True
This staff member's favorite cereal is Frosted Flakes
Ms. Norma
Alcohol and other drugs negatively impact emotions, learning and feeling pleasure naturally. Name the part of the brain in charge of this...
What do you loose when you are unable to predict how much of the drug you will take once you start using it, saying that you will stop or you can stop whenever you want.
Loss of Control
Name 2 risk factors for addiction
What are
TRAUMA, GENETIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, FAMILY EXPOSURE, MENTAL ILLNESS
You can become dependent on Marijuana
True-
George Washington was the 1st president of the US
Barack Obama was the ?
44th
Your brain sends and receives chemical and electrical signals as part of a carefully calibrated communication system called the ________ _________ _________
Central Nervous System
The need for increasing amount of drug or alcohol to get drunk or high.
Tolerance
A bad way of thinking, that makes you believe you will fail, that bad things will happen to you, or that you are not a very good person
What is Stinking Thinking
Addiction can harm others that do NOT use substances.
True
Increased spread of infectious diseases
Crime rate increases
family dynamics suffers
What was Mr. David's first car?
1970 Cadillac