Addiction terminology

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Across
  1. 2. A sudden, unpredictable increase in addiction cravings; they usually involve temporary mental unawareness (e.g. not realizing the amount of drinks one has had).
  2. 5. Society’s denial of the historical value of drug-induced pleasure and euphoria.
  3. 7. A family member’s or friend’s suffering that is the result of the side effects of one’s addiction; it occurs when one takes responsibility for another’s actions and helps that person avoid facing his or her problems directly to maintain the relationship.
  4. 8. Condition in which one must increase their use of a drug for it to have the same effect.
  5. 9. The body’s physiologic adaptation to a substance.
  6. 13. Repetitive behavior to avoid something unpleasant.
  7. 16. Anything that results in psychological and then physical relapse.
  8. 17. The poppy’s natural ingredients and their derivatives (opium, morphine, codeine, and heroin).
  9. 18. A behavioral change that results from an association between events.
  10. 20. A state of being drugged or poisoned.
  11. 22. A powerful and strong urge for a substance; a symptom of the abnormal brain adaptions that result from addiction.
  12. 25. One’s failure to either admit or realize his or her addiction or to recognize and accept the harm it can cause.
  13. 27. A maladaptive pattern of recurrent substance use that leads to impairment or distress that is clinically significant.
  14. 28. Helping an addicted person do things they can or should be doing for themselves; causes disease progression.
  15. 29. Reducing or ceasing substance abuse; often followed by one’s personal life being turned around by way of a supportive environment.
Down
  1. 1. Ongoing urge-peaks, usually followed by relapse.
  2. 3. Symptom recurrence after a period of sobriety or drug use cessation.
  3. 4. One’s compulsion to use a psychologically based drug for pleasure; may lead to drug misuse.
  4. 6. A therapeutic process that interrupts beliefs and behaviors that result in lifestyle dysfunction.
  5. 10. when any two parts of a system become uncomfortable with one another, they [one or both] will “triangle in” or focus upon a third person, or issue, as a way of stabilizing their own relationship with one another.
  6. 11. Severe and excruciating physical and emotional symptoms that generally occur between 4 to 72 hours after opiate withdrawal (e.g., watery eyes, yawning, loss of appetite, panic, insomnia, vomiting, shaking, irritability, jitters, etc.)
  7. 12. A physical behavior one repeats involuntarily that can be harmful (e.g., addiction).
  8. 14. The opposite of euphoria.
  9. 15. A major sedative/pain reliever found in opium.
  10. 19. A drug that produces sleep/drowsiness and that also relieves pain while being potentially dependence producing.
  11. 21. Less powerful desires than cravings; can be suppressed by willpower.
  12. 23. A symptom-free period.
  13. 24. One of the most frequent types of distress resulting from addiction; an ongoing state of sadness involving the inability to concentrate, inactivity, etc.
  14. 26. A pleasurable state of altered consciousness.