Across
- 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).
- 5. Society’s denial of the historical value of drug-induced pleasure and euphoria.
- 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.
- 8. Condition in which one must increase their use of a drug for it to have the same effect.
- 9. The body’s physiologic adaptation to a substance.
- 13. Repetitive behavior to avoid something unpleasant.
- 16. Anything that results in psychological and then physical relapse.
- 17. The poppy’s natural ingredients and their derivatives (opium, morphine, codeine, and heroin).
- 18. A behavioral change that results from an association between events.
- 20. A state of being drugged or poisoned.
- 22. A powerful and strong urge for a substance; a symptom of the abnormal brain adaptions that result from addiction.
- 25. One’s failure to either admit or realize his or her addiction or to recognize and accept the harm it can cause.
- 27. A maladaptive pattern of recurrent substance use that leads to impairment or distress that is clinically significant.
- 28. Helping an addicted person do things they can or should be doing for themselves; causes disease progression.
- 29. Reducing or ceasing substance abuse; often followed by one’s personal life being turned around by way of a supportive environment.
Down
- 1. Ongoing urge-peaks, usually followed by relapse.
- 3. Symptom recurrence after a period of sobriety or drug use cessation.
- 4. One’s compulsion to use a psychologically based drug for pleasure; may lead to drug misuse.
- 6. A therapeutic process that interrupts beliefs and behaviors that result in lifestyle dysfunction.
- 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.
- 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.)
- 12. A physical behavior one repeats involuntarily that can be harmful (e.g., addiction).
- 14. The opposite of euphoria.
- 15. A major sedative/pain reliever found in opium.
- 19. A drug that produces sleep/drowsiness and that also relieves pain while being potentially dependence producing.
- 21. Less powerful desires than cravings; can be suppressed by willpower.
- 23. A symptom-free period.
- 24. One of the most frequent types of distress resulting from addiction; an ongoing state of sadness involving the inability to concentrate, inactivity, etc.
- 26. A pleasurable state of altered consciousness.