Addictive Disorders Flashcards

1
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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
A

Alcohol Withdrawal

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What are these the symptoms of?

nausea
vomiting
diarrhea
runny nose and eyes
yawning and insomnia 
muscle aches 
negative mood
goosebumps
non-life threatening
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Opioid withdrawal (heroin, methadone, or morphine)

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What are these the symptoms of?

fatigue
unpleasant dreams
sleep disturbances
increased appetite 
psychomotor agitation or retardation
A

Stimulant withdrawals (cocaine and amphetamines)

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What are these the symptoms of?

cravings for the drug
depressed mood
irritability
restlessness
sleep difficulty 
increased anger and aggression
decreased appetite 
anxiety
headaches
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Cannabis Withdrawal

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5
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One of the central characteristic underpinning substance abuse disorders, is?

A

Loss of control

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6
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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

A

The Disease Model of Addiction

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A model which posits that substance use problems develop as a result of conditioning based on instrumental learning principals, is called?

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Instrumental (or Operant) Learning Model

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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

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Cognitive Behavioural Theory

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_____ 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

A

PRIME

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What does PRIME in the PRIME Theory stand for?

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plans, responses, impulses, motives and evaluations

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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

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Peer selection

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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)

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Peer socialization

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A type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences..?

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operant conditioning

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14
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What effect do ‘Antagonist Drugs’ have on people as a treatment of substance abuse..?

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They block the ‘rewarding effect’ of the substance

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15
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Name the cognitive error:

The belied that one can win at gambling - over the long term, one can come out ahead

A

gambling as a source

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16
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list the three phases of pathological gambling….

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  1. winning phase - winning big and getting hooked
  2. losing phase - gambling escalates while the person tries to win back their losses
  3. desperation phase - where people might engage in illegal activities like stealing to get by
17
Q

S________ (decreased serotonergic activity) is involved in specific impulsive behaviours

A

Serotonin

18
Q

Name the model:

Subgroups of problem gamblers:
Pathway 1. ‘behaviorally conditioned problem gamblers’
Pathway 2. emotionally vulnerable gamblers’
Pathway 3. biologically based problem gamblers

A

The integrated pathways model

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________ _________ - 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

A

gamblers fallacy

20
Q

Name the cognitive error:

A misinterpretation of a correlation between mutually independent events

A

illusory correlations

21
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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..’

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General Theory of Addictions