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Substance abuse and addictive disorders Flashcards

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Most widely used psychoactive substance

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Caffeine

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Most widely used illegal drug

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Marijuana

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Contributes to 2 million injuries a year in the US.

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Alcoholism

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Psychoactive drugs

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chemical substances that alter your mood and perception

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Depressants

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mellow, slow body functions, suppress neural activity; examples: alcohol, tranquilizers and opiates

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Disinhibitor

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impairs your brain’s judgement areas, while reducing your self-awareness and self-control

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Stimulants

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speed up body functions, excite neural activity, self-confidence and mood changes; examples are caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines

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Hallucinogens aka psychedelics

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distort perceptions and evoke sensory images, examples: plant, fungal, synthetic hearing smelling things that are not real

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T/F mental illness increases when we see an increase in different forms of addiction

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True

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Define as excessive drinking, binge drinking, amnesia like periods, blackouts, inability to cut down drinking,

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Alcohol use disorder

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Defined as seizures and delirium, medical emergency, one week after someone stops drinking

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Alcohol withdrawal

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Defines as memory loss due to prolonged ETOH abuse, rare for those under 35 because it is a long term drinking disorder, it is reversible (ataxia, only 20 percent recover)

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Alcohol-induced persisting amnestic disorder

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Defined as depressant, result in depression induced by alcohol

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Alcohol-induced mood disorder

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Defined as panic attacks, anxiety only occurs with ETOH consumption

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Alcohol-induced anxiety disorder-

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Defined as due to alcohol consumption individuals cannot perform

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Alcohol-induced sexual dysfunction

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Defined as difficulty sleeping due to drinking alcohol

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Alcohol-induced sleep disorder

17
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what are other Alcohol-related neurological disorders

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fetal alcohol syndrome

Liver is commonly damaged with alcoholism

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Disorders defined as intoxicants; associated with panic attacks, delirium and anxiety, natural and synthetic(easily made and sold cheaply) treatment is removal from substance and the person goes through withdrawal.

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Hallucinogen related disorders

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Disorder defined as gaseous fumes (shaving cream, gas, hairspray) cleaning fluids, aerosol cans, works fast and central nervous system depressant (younger people tend to have this)

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Inhalant related disorders

20
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Warning signs for recognizing an opioid overdose

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blue or purple fingernails and lips, unresponsiveness to voice or touch, pinpoint-sized pupils, slow heartbeat or low BP, slow irregular or stopped breathing, pale clammy skin

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Overdose tx

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  • (adequate airway) mechanically assisted until you can administer the drug naloxone to purge the chemicals
  • methadone - allows people to engage in occupations, increases alertness, methadone is used to treat opioid addiction
  • Therapeutic communities: abstinence is required, former abusers, individuals must be motivated to change (lifestyle change) residential home or campus.
  • Needle exchange- safe sex practice, teaching how to safely inject and provide clean needles
  • Narcotics anonymous: models 12 step program.
22
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Disorder defined as meth ritalin and cocaine, speed, rapid downward spiral of life, there is a need to increase the amount, constantly seeking more and more to get high. Euphoria, high pressure jobs, cardiac effects, hypertension, treatment is detox and psychological therapy

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Stimulant related disorder

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What are other substance use and addictive disorders

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Gaming disorders, sex, video gaming, gambling

24
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Phases of gambling and tx

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winning phase, progressive loss phase (life around gambling) not so smart gambling, loose their job, borrow money to gamble, desperate phase: not able to pay their bills or debts, loan sharks, embezzle money to pay for debt, hopeless phase: they begin to accept the loss. Tx: gambling anonymous (12 step program)

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Sex addiction

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Sex addiction: not in the DSMV, hypersexuality, reccurent behaviors and thoughts,

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Video gaming

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not in the DSMV, condition that warrants more clinical research, people want to escape parts of their lives.

27
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EBP

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recovery is a subjective experience, understanding substance abuse as an occupation, an occupation shaping health and well-being, our instrument for socialization and our identity, my meaningful use of time and energy, the abuser must want to get clean, (substance abuse is an occupation)

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Positive occupations

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Positive as an occupation: gives a person purpose, identity, identify with role models

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Negative occupations

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hallucination

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