The Addiction Process Flashcards
Physiological Dependence
The body becomes used to certain psychoactive chemicals as a result of the chemical’s continued use.
Acute withdrawal
Intense symptoms lasting from two to seven days.
Secondary withdrawal
May last for weeks or months, mood swings, anxiousness, insomnia, and bodily function disruption.
Chemicals that require detox
Opiates, cocaine, alcohol, and other CNS depressants.
Psychological or behavioral dependence.
Individuals who solely use chemicals to satisfy a need or hunger to fulfill a subjective experience.
Craving
Feeling that overtakes their bodies causing feelings of dysfunction unless they use the chemical.
Addict
Act compulsively with use of substance, consider use of substance as essential.
Psychochemical Users
May not be addicts, they are using a chemical for medical reasons such as cancer.
Abuse liability
A term used to call attention to certain prescription psychoactive chemicals known to cause addiction more than others.
Controlled Substances
If a chemical has abuse liability, they are termed controlled substances by the Drug Enforcement Administration, schedules 1 through V.
Role induction
After tx objectives have been decided, roles of the client and counselor are set in order to decrease anxiety the client feels and limit ambiguity that arises in the tx procedure.
Defense Mechanism
Unconscious effort or strategy to alter conditions perceived as painful in the human condition for the purposes of avoiding pain and maintaining self image.
Level 1 Defense Mechanisms
Pathological - alter external experience so the result eradicates the need to cope with whatever reality exists or existed. (Denial, distortion, delusional projection.)
Level 2 Defense Mechanisms
Immature - used in adolescence/childhood, often outgrown. (Fantasy, projection, hypochondriasis, passive aggression, acting out.)
Level 3 Defense Mechanisms
Neurotic (intellectualization, repression, reaction formation, displacement, dissociation)
