Exam 2 - Chapter 24 Alcohol, Tobacco, And Drugs In Community

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focuses on the addiction process by helping clients view addiction as a chronic disease and assisting them in making lifestyle changes to halt the progression of the disease

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Addiction treatment

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self help group that practice a 12 step approach to recovery for persons suffering from alcoholism

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AA

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addiction to alcohol

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Alcoholism

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also called blood alcohol level; the amount of alcohol in the blood, commonly expressed as grams of alcohol per 100 mililiters of blood. most state legal limits of intoxication while driving are 0.08% or 0.1%

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Blood alcohol concentration (BAC)

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interventions that are sometimes made by health care professionals who are not treatment experts and that have been found to be effective in helping alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abusers and addicts reduce their consumption or follow through with treatment referrals. They can have six parts: feedback, responsibility, advice, menu of options, empathy and self efficacy

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Brief interventions

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a condition characterized by preoccupation and extreme dependency (emotionally, socially, and sometimes physically) on a person. Eventually this dependence on another person becomes a pathological condition that affects the person in all of his or her relationships

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codependency

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Condition in which tolerance to one drug results in a decreased response to another drug in the same general category

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Cross-tolerance

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a primary symptom of addiction. The person may lie about use, play down use, and blame; ma also use humor to avoid acknowledging the problem to self and to others

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Denial

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drugs that reduce the activity of the CNS

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Depressants

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the process of allowing time for the body to metabolize and/or excrete accumulations of a drug. It is often called social detoxification if the withdrawal symptoms are not life threatening and do not require medication, or medical detoxification if the symptoms require medical managemant

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Detoxification

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a pattern of abuse characterized by an overwhelming preoccupation with the use (compulsive use) of a drug, securing its supply, and a high tendency for relapse if the drug is removed

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Drug Addiction

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Physiological change in the central nervous system as a result of chronic drug use

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Drug dependence

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the act of shielding of preventing the addict from experiencing the consequences of the addiction. It also applies to shielding individuals from the consequences of their actions more generally

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Enabling

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A condition that may occur when a woman has consumed alcohol regularly during pregnancy (six drinks per day). Infants tend to be of low birth weight and mentally retarded and may have behavioral, facial, limb, genital, cardiac, or neurological impairments

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

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Also known as psychodelics and by far the best drugs one can take before a phish concert. Drugs that stimulate the nervous system and produce varied changes in perception and mood

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Hallucinogens

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A public health approach to substance abuse problems. This approach acknowledges, without judgement, that licit and illicit drug use is a reality and the focus of interventions is to minimize these drugs' harmful effects rather than to simply ignore or condemn them; also to facilitate responsible use of substances

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Harm Reduction

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Substances, often common household chemicals, that are inhaled by drug users. Inhalants fall into four categories: volatile organic solvents, aerosols, volatile nitrites, and gases; they are inhaled from bottled, aerosol cans, or soaked cloth

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Inhalants

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Includes intravenous and subcutaneous drug injection, with the latter usually being over the abdominal area called 'popping' (not pooping). The sharing of needles can result in transmission of blood borne pathogens, such as HIV

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Injection Drug Users (IDUs)

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Smoke inhaled and exhaled by the smoker

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Mainstream smoke

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Semisynthethic drug classified as a mood elevator that produces feelings of empathy, openness and well being

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MDMA (Ecstasy)

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Drugs from different categories used together or at different or at different times to regulate how the person feels

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Polysubstance use or abuse

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Drugs that affect mood, perception, and thought

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Psychoactive drugs

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expectation, including unconscious expectation, as a variable determining a person's reaction to a drug

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Set

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the environment- physical, social, and cultural- as a variable determining the person's reaction to a drug

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Setting

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Smoke that comes off a cigarette from the outside rather than being drawn through the cigarette

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Sidestream smoke

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drugs that increase the activity of the central nervous system, causing wakefulness

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Stimulants

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use of any substance that threatens a person's health or impairs his or her social or economic functioning

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substance abuse

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in pharmacology, the need for increasing doses of a drug over time to maintain the same effect

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Tolerance

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Physical and psychological symptoms that occur when a drug upon which the person is dependent is removed

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Withdrawal