Addictive Disorders Flashcards
What are these the symptoms of?
- a state that can be life threatening
- autonomic hyperactivity
- nausea and vomiting
- shakiness
- anxiety
- insomnia
- psychomotor agitation
- hallucinations
- grand mal seizures
- risk of death
Alcohol Withdrawal
What are these the symptoms of?
nausea vomiting diarrhea runny nose and eyes yawning and insomnia muscle aches negative mood goosebumps non-life threatening
Opioid withdrawal (heroin, methadone, or morphine)
What are these the symptoms of?
fatigue unpleasant dreams sleep disturbances increased appetite psychomotor agitation or retardation
Stimulant withdrawals (cocaine and amphetamines)
What are these the symptoms of?
cravings for the drug depressed mood irritability restlessness sleep difficulty increased anger and aggression decreased appetite anxiety headaches
Cannabis Withdrawal
One of the central characteristic underpinning substance abuse disorders, is?
Loss of control
Which model has the view that alcoholism (or another addiction) is an incurable physical disease, like epilepsy or diabetes, such that only total abstinence can control it
The Disease Model of Addiction
A model which posits that substance use problems develop as a result of conditioning based on instrumental learning principals, is called?
Instrumental (or Operant) Learning Model
The _______ _________ ______ suggests that, someone who is in a high risk situations (and around substances) will use the substance if they do not have appropriate coping strategies
Cognitive Behavioural Theory
_____ theory attempts to build a comprehensive theory of motivation relating to addictions. According to this approach, a ‘plan’ is a mental gap of what the individual intends to do in the future
PRIME
What does PRIME in the PRIME Theory stand for?
plans, responses, impulses, motives and evaluations
The process of ____ ________: when the substance abuse behaviour is present prior to selecting a friend/making a new friend. With the individual choosing to associate with others who have substance use behaviours
Peer selection
The act of ____ ___________: When substance abuse is the result of influence from those in the individuals social network in the form of modelling, encouragement and/or pressure (peer pressure)
Peer socialization
A type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences..?
operant conditioning
What effect do ‘Antagonist Drugs’ have on people as a treatment of substance abuse..?
They block the ‘rewarding effect’ of the substance
Name the cognitive error:
The belied that one can win at gambling - over the long term, one can come out ahead
gambling as a source
list the three phases of pathological gambling….
- winning phase - winning big and getting hooked
- losing phase - gambling escalates while the person tries to win back their losses
- desperation phase - where people might engage in illegal activities like stealing to get by
S________ (decreased serotonergic activity) is involved in specific impulsive behaviours
Serotonin
Name the model:
Subgroups of problem gamblers:
Pathway 1. ‘behaviorally conditioned problem gamblers’
Pathway 2. emotionally vulnerable gamblers’
Pathway 3. biologically based problem gamblers
The integrated pathways model
________ _________ - when a series of losses must be followed by a win when, in fact, the chances of winning/losing remain the same on each play
gamblers fallacy
Name the cognitive error:
A misinterpretation of a correlation between mutually independent events
illusory correlations
Name the theory:
‘… asserts that childhood social and developmental experiences that lead to feelings of inadequacy, worthlessness and low self-esteem predispose the individual to engaging in addictive behaviours..’
General Theory of Addictions
