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What is the pattern of bad behaviors and reactions brought about by repeated abuse of a substance?

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Substance Use Disorder

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What is the adjustment that the brain and body make to the regular use of drugs?

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Tolerance

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What is the unpleasant sometimes dangerous reaction that may accuse when people stop taking drugs?

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Withdrawal

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Any beverage containing ethyl alcohol

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Alcohol

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What are the three widely used groups of depressants?

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Alcohol, Sedative Hypnotic Drugs , and Opioids

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What is alcohol use disorder?

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Alcoholism

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What is a dramatic withdrawal reaction experienced by people with alcoholism?

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Delirium Tremens

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What is an alcohol related disorder marked by extreme confusion, memory impairment, and other brain symptoms?

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Korsakoff’s Syndrom

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What is a cluster of problems in a child caused by excessive alcohol intake by the mother during pregnancy?

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrom

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What is a drug used in low doses to reduce anxiety and in higher doses to help people sleep?

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Sedative Hypnotic Drug (Anxiolytic Drugs)

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What are the two sedative hypnotic drugs?

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Barbiturates and Benzodiazepines

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What is an addictive sedative hypnotic drug that helps reduce anxiety and helps produce sleep?

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Barbiturates

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This is an example of valium and Xanax

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Benzodiazepines

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Morphine, Heroine, or Codeine

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Opioid

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A highly addictive substance made from the sap of the poppy

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Opium

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Addictive substance that is particularly affective in releasing pain. (comes from opium)

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Morphine

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The most addictive substance that comes from Opium

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Heroine

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What is neurotransmitters that help relieve pain and reduce emotional tension. They are sometimes referred to as the bodies own opioids.

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Endorphines

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What is an addictive stimulant optioned from the coca plant? It is the most powerful natural stimulant known.

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Cocaine

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What is a technique used for ingesting cocaine in which cocaine is chemically separated and vaporized by heat and inhaled with a pipe?

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Freebasing

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What is a powerful, ready to smoke, freebased cocaine?

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Crack

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What are stimulant drugs that are manufactured in the laboratory?

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Amphetamines

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What is a powerful amphetamine drug that has experienced a surge in popularity and poses as a major health and law enforcement problem?

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Methamphetamine

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What is a substance that causes powerful changes mainly in sensory perception?

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Hallucinogen

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What is a hallucinogenic drug derived from ergot alkaloids?

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LSD

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What is a substance produced from a varieties of the hemp plant?

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Cannabis

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What is one of the cannabis drugs derived from buds, ;eaves, and flowering tops of the hemp plant?

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Marijuana

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What is the main active ingredient of cannabis?

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Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)

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What is the use of more than one drug at a time?

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Polysubstance use

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What do you call the combined impact of polysubstance use?

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Synergistic Effect

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What is a treatment in which clients are repeatedly presented with unpleasant stimuli while performing undesirable behaviors?

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Aversion Therapy

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What is systematic and medically supervised withdrawal from a drug?

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Detoxification

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What are drugs the block or change the effects of an addictive drug?

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Antagonist Drug

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What is an approach to treating heroin abuse by giving a supervised substitute drug?

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Methadone Maintenance Program

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What is a self help organization that provided support for alcoholics?

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AA

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What is place where former drug addicts work, live, and socialize in a drug free environment?

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Residential Treatment Center

37
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What is a disorder marked by persistent and recurrent gambling behavior?

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Gambling Disorder

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What is disorder marked by a persistent, recurrent, and excessive internet activity?

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Internet Use Gaming Disorder

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What is a psychotic disorder in which regular functioning deteriorates as a result of strange perceptions, unusual emotions, and motor abnormalities?

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Schizophrenia

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What is the state in which a person loses contact with reality in key ways?

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Psychosis

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What do you call symptoms of Schizophrenia?

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Positive Symptoms

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What is a strange false belief firmly held despite evidence to the contrary?

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Delusion

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What is a disturbance in the production and organization of thought.

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Formal Thought Disorder

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What is thinking characterized by rapid shifts from one topic to another?

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Lose Associations or Derailment

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What is the experience of sights, sounds, or perceptions in the absence of stimuli?

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Hallucination

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What is a display of emotions that are unsuited to a situation?

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Inappropriate Affect

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What are symptoms of schizophrenia that seem to be deficit in normal thoughts, emotions, and behaviors?

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Negative Symptoms

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What is a decrease in speech or speech content?

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Alogia

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What is a pattern of extreme psychomotor symptoms?

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Catatonia

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What is the theory that schizophrenia results from excessive activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine?

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Dopamine Hypothesis

51
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What are drugs that help correct grossly confused or distorted thinking?

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Antipsychotic Drugs

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What is a group of antihistamine drugs that became the first group of effective antipsychotic medications?

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Phenothiazines

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What is a relatively new group of antipsychotic drugs whose biological action is different from traditional antipsychotic drugs?

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Atypical Antipsychotic drugs

54
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What is the type of mother who was once was thought to have caused schizophrenia in her child?

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Schizophrenogenic

55
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What is the general level of criticism, disapproval, and hostility expressed in a family?

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Expressed Emotion

56
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What are public mental hospitals called?

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State Hospitals

57
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What is the belief that institutions can help people recover by building an environment that promotes self respect, responsible behavior, and meaningful activity?

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Milieu Therapy

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What is a behavior program in which a persons desired behaviors are reenforced by awarding token?

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Token Economy Program

59
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What are conventional antipsychotic drugs that produces undesired affects similar to neurological disorders?

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Neuroleptic Drugs

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What are unwanted movements produced by conventional antipsychotic drugs?

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Extrapyramidal Effects

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What are extrapyramidal effects that appear after taking conventional antipsychotic drugs for an extended time?

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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What is the discharge of a large number of patients from long term institutional care?

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Deinstitutionalization

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What is a treatment facility that provides medical care for psychological problems in the community?

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Community Mental Health Center

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What is a program of post-hospitalization care in the community?

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Aftercare

65
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What is a program that offers hospital like treatment during the day only?

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Day Center

66
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What is a residents for people with schizophrenia or other sever problems often staffed by professionals?

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Halfway House

67
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What is a supervised work place for people who are not yet ready for competitive jobs?

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Sheltered Workshops

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What is a community therapist who offers services for people which include therapy, advice, medication, guidance, and protection of patients rights?

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