Addictions Flashcards
Total costs to federal, state, and local governments of substance abuse, which has its roots in adolescence, are at least ______________per year.
468 billion
What percentage of American adolescents had used an illicit drug sometime during their lifetime?
48.5%
According to the Biopsychosocial Model of Substance Use/Dependence…
Genetic predisposition, Social-Environmental, Withdrawal Syndrome, and Compulsive use of the substance.
What are the three main areas of the Biopsychosocial Theories of Addiction?
Physical-Dependence Theory, Positive-Incentive Theory, and Incentive-Sensitization Theory.
What are some of the symptoms of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)?
Irritability, tremors/seizures, gastrointestinal system issues and metabolic/vasomotor and respiratory difficulties.
The Major Brain Areas Hijacked by Substance Use and Abuse are?
Prefrontal, Anterior Cingulate Gyrus, Hippocampus, Amygdala, Cerebellum.
Alcohol Effects on Neuro-Developmental Learning involve which one of the following:
Deficits in executive functioning involving day-today life.
Deficits inhibitory control, initiation and working memory.
Decreased flexibility in thinking and difficulty remembering.
The _______________________ Is critical in mediating drug cravings and the recurrence of drug abuse.
Amygdala
When the Cerebellum is hijacked by illicit substances, which of the following is true?
Even the act of smiling requires the coordination of forty-seven muscles and the cerebellum facilitates such a process. Therefore, may not be able to exercise all the muscles to smile when under the influence resulting in a half-smile and slow speech.
What two major organs in the body are affected by addiction causing a decrease in functioning?
Brain and heart
According to the DMS-V, one of the major criteria that was listed previously in the DSM-IV-TR and no longer is listed involves _________________________________.
reoccurring legal issues.
What drugs are within the Schedule 1 of Controlled Substance Schedule in the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention and Control Act?
Heroin, LSD, Mescaline, Marijuana, PCP.
What is involved in the Neuro-Developmental Effects cause by Alcohol Consumption?
Alcohol Abuse leads to deficits in executive functioning involving day-today life including inhibitory control, initiation and working memory.
Alcohol Abuse leads to deficits in executive functioning involving day-today life including decreased flexibility in thinking and difficulty remembering.
Areas of Brain affected by THC marijuana are…
Amygdala, Basal Ganglia, Cerebellum, Neocortex, Nucleus Accumbens and Spinal Cord.
The DSM-5 diagnostic categories and criteria of Opioid Use Disorder include the four criteria:
Impaired control, social impairment, risky use, and pharmacological properties.
