Understanding Addiction and Recovery Correct Answer: Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an indi...
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Understanding Addiction and Recovery Correct Answer: Addiction is a primary, chronic disease
of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an
individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors. Addiction is characterized by a diminished recognition of significant problems with one's behaviors. (ASAM: American Society of Addiction Medicine)
Factors that Influence Addiction Correct Answer: Genetic, Home & Family, Peer & School; Early Use; Method of Administration; Fundamental changes in the Brain.
Theories of Causation Correct Answer: Moral Model; Disease Model (E.M. Jellinek 1960); Genetic Model; Cultural Model; Blended Model.
Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) Correct Answer: Exist along a continuum.
Drugs of Abuse Correct Answer: Alcohol is the most frequently abused substance. Drugs obtained through prescriptions or stolen from pharmacies is a serious problem.
Alcohol Correct Answer: Alcohol is classified as a sedative-hypnotic, thus a central nervous system depressant. Alcohol has eights stages of effect: sub-clinical, euphoria, excitement; excitement (2); excitement/confusion; confusion/stupor;coma and death Catholic University of America 2011)
Alcohol Correct Answer: While it is trues that men are more likely to drink alcohol and in greater amounts, women have a higher risk of developing problems from alcohol consumption. This is because women generally have less water than men's bodies. Because alcohol mixes with body water, a given amount of alcohol is less diluted in a woman's body than in a man's. Women become more impaired by alcohol's effects and are more susceptible to alcohol-related organ damage.
Cannabis (Marijuana) Correct Answer: Contrary to popular belief, marijuana is addictive.
Prescription Drugs Correct Answer: Past year abuse of prescription pain killers now ranks second-only behind marijuana- as the nations's most prevalent drug problem.
The classes of prescription drugs most commonly abused: Correct Answer: Opioid pain relievers such as Vicodin or Oxycontin; stimulants for treating ADHD such as Adderall, Concerta or Ritalin and Cental Nervous System depressants for relieving anxiety such as Valium and Xanax. Prescription Drugs Correct Answer: More people die from overdoses of prescription opioids than from all other drugs combined, including heroine and cocaine (Centers for Disease Control, 2011).
Withdrawal from Drugs of Abuse Correct Answer: Central to the role of nearly all drugs taht are
commonly abused to prodeuce euphoria is the nucleus accumbens, the brain's "pleasure center".
Withdrawal from Drugs of Abuse Correct Answer: Attempting to give up a benzodiazepine or alcohol dependency can result in seizures and worse if not carried out properly.
Recovery Correct Answer: Recovery is a process of change whereby individual's improve their health and wellness, to live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential (SAMHSA, 2014)
A New Recovery Paradigm Correct Answer: There has been a shift in traditional clinical practice toward new priorities of supporting the client in working toward self-defined goals and taking responsibility for their own life. The new recovery movement affirms the very real potential for permanent, personal resolution of behavioral health problems.
Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care Correct Answer: ROSCs are a model of sustained recovery management (RM). The RM model wraps traditional interventions in a continuum of recovery support services spanning the pre-recovery, recovery initiation and stabilization, and recovery maintenance stages of problem resolution. Distinctive is the model's emphasis on post-treatment monitoring and support; long term, stage-appropriate recovery education; peer- based recovery coaching; assertive linkage to communities of recovery; and when needed, early re-intervention (White, 2006).
CSAT Correct Answer: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
SAMHSA Correct Answer: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care Correct Answer: Important to make the destiction between Recovery and ROSC.
Recovery Correct Answer: Process of change whereby individuals improve their health and wellness.
ROSC Correct Answer: Partnering with people in recovery from mental health and SUD to guide the behavioral health system and promote individual, program and system-level approaches that foster health and resilience; increase permanent housing, employment, education
and other necessary supports; and reduce barriers to social inclusion.
Four Major Dimensions in an effective ROSC Correct Answer: Health (disease management);Home;Purpose; Community.
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