addiction midterm ch.3

The age group with the highest level of alcohol use

21 year olds

• Percentage of patients treated at mental health centers who also have problems with alcohol and other drugs

27% pg.112

Principles behind the use of aversion treatment

Classical conditioning/behaviorism

• Countries that have the highest total per capita consumption in liters of pure alcohol

Moldova highest in world 18.2, czech republic second 113

The only drug that causes addiction in the majority of users

Nicotine, (maybe methemphedamie)

Class of medications most widely prescribed today to combat depression

SSR'Is

• The phenomenon associated with aging in which the drinker loses his/her ability to handle alcohol

Tolerance reversal

• Which substances abused by youth cause the most deaths

alcohol

• Meaning of the term "lachrymose drunk," according to Father Martin

crying, drunk, full of self-pity

• A drug used experimentally to treat trauma victims

ecstacy

• The drug that activates the very receptors in the brain involved in the increase of appetite

marijuana pg.143

• Most commonly abused prescription drugs strongly associated with Emergency Room visits

opiods, including oxycotin, darvon, vicodin

• What heroin is derived from

opium poppy pg.121

• Which commonly used and misused drugs are, and are not, depressants

pg..10

• Why methadone is prescribed for heroin addiction

pg.125

Meaning of terms tolerance and cross-tolerance

tolerance to a substance to which the individual had not previously been exposed pg.118

• The movie The Lost Weekend and Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer were presented in the text to illustrate a symptom of alcoholism

withfrae- the last weekend, tom-The blackout

• percentage of lung cancer deaths caused by smoking, according to the American Lung Association (2006)

90%

• What Ondansetron has been used for effectively treating and how it works

Alcoholics, chemotherapy patients, cocaine addicts) reduces craving . pg.167

• The psychiatric term for the inability to feel pleasure

Anhedonia

Recommendations or advice for how to prevent a hangover

Avoid darker drinks, drink lots of liquids such as water, and don't drink much and food consumtion