Unusual Addictions
This condition involves craving and eating items with no nutritional value, such as chalk, dirt, or paper.
Pica
Which medication for alcohol use disorder blocks opioid receptors and may reduce alcohol-related reward and heavy drinking?
Naltrexone
This animal will raid commercial opium poppy field and eat the poppy heads to get opiate effects
Red Necked Wallabies
Something that causes you to think about substance or creates urges to use.
Trigger
Getting 7 to 9 hours of this every night is important to helping the brain repair itself.
Sleep
People with this condition repeatedly pull out their own hair, sometimes resulting in bald patches
Trichotillomania
What is the name for the brain's process of learning to associate environmental cues, such as a particular bar or stressful situation, with alcohol-related rewards?
Associative learning or conditioned learning
This animal in normal India will raid and become dependent on opium crops
Parrots
Stress, anger, sadness, loneliness or boredom are examples of what
Emotional Triggers
PAWS, which stand for this, refers to emotional and physical symps that can persist for weeks or moths after acute detox
Post- Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
This condition involves repeatedly picking at one's skin, sometimes causing sores or scarring.
excoriation disorder
Which brain structure is strongly involved in executive function, decision-making, impulse control, and evaluating consequences, all of which can be affected by chronic heavy alcohol
Prefrontal Cortex
This animal will scrap and chew on hallucinogen liches from on sleep alpine lichens, sometimes wearing down their gums
Bighorn sheep
Visiting a place where you used substances, seeing paraphernalia or being around people that are using
Environmental Triggers
This 11-letter term describes the brain’s amazing ability to adapt, heal and rewire itself after stopping substance use.
Neuroplasticity
This rare condition involves the consumption of blood.
hematophagia
At approximately what BAC are you typically at risk for a coma?
.35%
This animal will consume fermented palm sap, overripe fruit or alcoholic drinks left unattended
Vervet Monkeys & Chimps
A trigger that comes from surrounding, people, places or situations
External Triggers
Active substance use highjacks the brain’s survival wiring turning a craving into a subconscious drive for survival that completely overrides this word for conscious determination
Willpower
This condition involves repeatedly swallowing air, which can lead to excessive belching or abdominal bloating.
aerophagia
How long does it take for alcohol to affect the brain?
90 Seconds
This animal will graze on “locoweed” an intoxicating plan that acts as a tranquilizer
Cows
This type of trigger comes from inside a personal, such as an uncomfortable memory or sensation
Internal Trigger
This specific phenomenon occurs when substance use tricks the midbrain into prioritizing the substance over basic biological needs like food or water?
Hijacked survival wiring or Survival Delusion