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14 Cards in this Set
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What was the miner addicted to? It is chemically similar to what drug, which comes from what plant? |
Oxytocin
Chemically similar to morphine found in opium of poppy flowers. |
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What compound in the brain does this drug mimic? |
Endorphins |
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After surgeries and during recovery the former high school basketball plaer experienced pain as if "the bones were being ripped out of her body" . What was the cause of this pain? What was her (and her doctor’s) response to this pain? |
The cause was withdrawl from opioid. The doctor prescribe more opiods. |
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Why does addiction run in families? |
Addiction can be linked to genetics and genetics runs in the family. |
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What does the video say is the number one domestic problem in America today? |
drug addiction |
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What is the brain's natural reward chemical? What do the drugs do in the brain with respect to this reward chemical? |
Dopamine
Drugs mimic dopamine effects and make the brain less sensitive to dopamine. |
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What three behaviors, other than drug use, can cause the release of this reward compound and eventual addiction? |
reduction in dopamine receptors |
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What other drug is compounding the problem of opioid addiction. A drug that is being shipped from China. |
Fentynal |
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What is the name of the program that has traditionally been used to recover people from addiction? |
abstinence 12 steps |
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This program has been successful with alcohol addiction. It fails what percent of the time with opioid addiction? |
80 percent |
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What is the main reason that opioid recovery patients keep taking Suboxone? |
Not taking it makes their body painful. |
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What is the brain’s “executive control center”? What other process that we covered in a previous video does this part of the brain control? |
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What is the antidote to opioids and how does it work? |
Naloxone pulls opioid off the receptor cells |
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What is the approach that the city of Vancouver Canada taking to treat the opioid addiction epidemic? |
insite recovery and relief programs with monitored intakes |
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