LDJIN Addiction terminology

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Across
  1. 6. A major sedative/pain reliever found in opium.
  2. 9. A state of being drugged or poisoned.
  3. 11. Reducing or ceasing substance abuse; often followed by one’s personal life being turned around by way of a supportive environment.
  4. 13. Society’s denial of the historical value of drug-induced pleasure and euphoria.
  5. 14. A pleasurable state of altered consciousness.
  6. 15. Condition in which one must increase their use of a drug for it to have the same effect.
  7. 17. Less powerful desires than cravings; can be suppressed by willpower.
  8. 18. One’s compulsion to use a psychologically based drug for pleasure; may lead to drug misuse.
  9. 19. A sudden, unpredictable increase in addiction cravings; they usually involve temporary mental unawareness (e.g. not realizing the amount of drinks one has had).
  10. 22. Helping an addicted person do things they can or should be doing for themselves; causes disease progression.
  11. 24. Ongoing urge-peaks, usually followed by relapse.
  12. 25. A behavioral change that results from an association between events.
  13. 26. 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.)
  14. 27. A powerful and strong urge for a substance; a symptom of the abnormal brain adaptions that result from addiction.
  15. 28. The opposite of euphoria.
Down
  1. 1. Anything that results in psychological and then physical relapse.
  2. 2. The poppy’s natural ingredients and their derivatives (opium, morphine, codeine, and heroin).
  3. 3. A physical behavior one repeats involuntarily that can be harmful (e.g., addiction).
  4. 4. A maladaptive pattern of recurrent substance use that leads to impairment or distress that is clinically significant.
  5. 5. One of the most frequent types of distress resulting from addiction; an ongoing state of sadness involving the inability to concentrate, inactivity, etc.
  6. 7. One’s failure to either admit or realize his or her addiction or to recognize and accept the harm it can cause.
  7. 8. The body’s physiologic adaptation to a substance.
  8. 10. A drug that produces sleep/drowsiness and that also relieves pain while being potentially dependence producing.
  9. 11. Symptom recurrence after a period of sobriety or drug use cessation.
  10. 12. A therapeutic process that interrupts beliefs and behaviors that result in lifestyle dysfunction.
  11. 16. Repetitive behavior to avoid something unpleasant.
  12. 20. 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.
  13. 21. 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.
  14. 23. A symptom-free period.