Test 6 Flashcards
What is the pattern of bad behaviors and reactions brought about by repeated abuse of a substance?
Substance Use Disorder
What is the adjustment that the brain and body make to the regular use of drugs?
Tolerance
What is the unpleasant sometimes dangerous reaction that may accuse when people stop taking drugs?
Withdrawal
Any beverage containing ethyl alcohol
Alcohol
What are the three widely used groups of depressants?
Alcohol, Sedative Hypnotic Drugs , and Opioids
What is alcohol use disorder?
Alcoholism
What is a dramatic withdrawal reaction experienced by people with alcoholism?
Delirium Tremens
What is an alcohol related disorder marked by extreme confusion, memory impairment, and other brain symptoms?
Korsakoff’s Syndrom
What is a cluster of problems in a child caused by excessive alcohol intake by the mother during pregnancy?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrom
What is a drug used in low doses to reduce anxiety and in higher doses to help people sleep?
Sedative Hypnotic Drug (Anxiolytic Drugs)
What are the two sedative hypnotic drugs?
Barbiturates and Benzodiazepines
What is an addictive sedative hypnotic drug that helps reduce anxiety and helps produce sleep?
Barbiturates
This is an example of valium and Xanax
Benzodiazepines
Morphine, Heroine, or Codeine
Opioid
A highly addictive substance made from the sap of the poppy
Opium
Addictive substance that is particularly affective in releasing pain. (comes from opium)
Morphine
The most addictive substance that comes from Opium
Heroine
What is neurotransmitters that help relieve pain and reduce emotional tension. They are sometimes referred to as the bodies own opioids.
Endorphines
What is an addictive stimulant optioned from the coca plant? It is the most powerful natural stimulant known.
Cocaine
What is a technique used for ingesting cocaine in which cocaine is chemically separated and vaporized by heat and inhaled with a pipe?
Freebasing
What is a powerful, ready to smoke, freebased cocaine?
Crack
What are stimulant drugs that are manufactured in the laboratory?
Amphetamines
What is a powerful amphetamine drug that has experienced a surge in popularity and poses as a major health and law enforcement problem?
Methamphetamine
What is a substance that causes powerful changes mainly in sensory perception?
Hallucinogen
What is a hallucinogenic drug derived from ergot alkaloids?
LSD
What is a substance produced from a varieties of the hemp plant?
Cannabis
What is one of the cannabis drugs derived from buds, ;eaves, and flowering tops of the hemp plant?
Marijuana
What is the main active ingredient of cannabis?
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
What is the use of more than one drug at a time?
Polysubstance use
What do you call the combined impact of polysubstance use?
Synergistic Effect
What is a treatment in which clients are repeatedly presented with unpleasant stimuli while performing undesirable behaviors?
Aversion Therapy
What is systematic and medically supervised withdrawal from a drug?
Detoxification
What are drugs the block or change the effects of an addictive drug?
Antagonist Drug
What is an approach to treating heroin abuse by giving a supervised substitute drug?
Methadone Maintenance Program
What is a self help organization that provided support for alcoholics?
AA
What is place where former drug addicts work, live, and socialize in a drug free environment?
Residential Treatment Center
What is a disorder marked by persistent and recurrent gambling behavior?
Gambling Disorder
What is disorder marked by a persistent, recurrent, and excessive internet activity?
Internet Use Gaming Disorder
What is a psychotic disorder in which regular functioning deteriorates as a result of strange perceptions, unusual emotions, and motor abnormalities?
Schizophrenia
What is the state in which a person loses contact with reality in key ways?
Psychosis
What do you call symptoms of Schizophrenia?
Positive Symptoms
What is a strange false belief firmly held despite evidence to the contrary?
Delusion
What is a disturbance in the production and organization of thought.
Formal Thought Disorder
What is thinking characterized by rapid shifts from one topic to another?
Lose Associations or Derailment
What is the experience of sights, sounds, or perceptions in the absence of stimuli?
Hallucination
What is a display of emotions that are unsuited to a situation?
Inappropriate Affect
What are symptoms of schizophrenia that seem to be deficit in normal thoughts, emotions, and behaviors?
Negative Symptoms
What is a decrease in speech or speech content?
Alogia
What is a pattern of extreme psychomotor symptoms?
Catatonia
What is the theory that schizophrenia results from excessive activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine?
Dopamine Hypothesis
What are drugs that help correct grossly confused or distorted thinking?
Antipsychotic Drugs
What is a group of antihistamine drugs that became the first group of effective antipsychotic medications?
Phenothiazines
What is a relatively new group of antipsychotic drugs whose biological action is different from traditional antipsychotic drugs?
Atypical Antipsychotic drugs
What is the type of mother who was once was thought to have caused schizophrenia in her child?
Schizophrenogenic
What is the general level of criticism, disapproval, and hostility expressed in a family?
Expressed Emotion
What are public mental hospitals called?
State Hospitals
What is the belief that institutions can help people recover by building an environment that promotes self respect, responsible behavior, and meaningful activity?
Milieu Therapy
What is a behavior program in which a persons desired behaviors are reenforced by awarding token?
Token Economy Program
What are conventional antipsychotic drugs that produces undesired affects similar to neurological disorders?
Neuroleptic Drugs
What are unwanted movements produced by conventional antipsychotic drugs?
Extrapyramidal Effects
What are extrapyramidal effects that appear after taking conventional antipsychotic drugs for an extended time?
Tardive Dyskinesia
What is the discharge of a large number of patients from long term institutional care?
Deinstitutionalization
What is a treatment facility that provides medical care for psychological problems in the community?
Community Mental Health Center
What is a program of post-hospitalization care in the community?
Aftercare
What is a program that offers hospital like treatment during the day only?
Day Center
What is a residents for people with schizophrenia or other sever problems often staffed by professionals?
Halfway House
What is a supervised work place for people who are not yet ready for competitive jobs?
Sheltered Workshops
What is a community therapist who offers services for people which include therapy, advice, medication, guidance, and protection of patients rights?
Case Manager
