Drug Use and Mental Health

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Across
  1. 2. an affective disorder characterized by a dysphoric mood and loss of interest or pleasure in almost all usual activities or pasttimes
  2. 3. health conditions characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior (or some condition thereof) associated with distress and impaired functioning
  3. 5. a nineteenth century treatment in which people with mental illness were removed from the everyday life stressors of their home environment and given “asylum” in a rural setting, including rest, exercise, fresh air, and amusements
  4. 6. rather than curing, an outcome sought by most people with mental illness
  5. 8. Acronym for the complex physiological responses resulting from exposures to stressors
  6. 10. a strategy directed towards individuals or groups that aims to reduce the harms associated with certain behaviors
  7. 13. transferring patients from one type of public institution to another, usually as a result of policy change rather than improved treatment effectiveness
  8. 16. the concept of equality in healthcare coverage for people with mental illness and those with other medical illnesses or injuries
  9. 17. surgical severance of nerve fibers of the brain by incision
  10. 18. a program that stops the spread of needle-transmitted drugs with used needles by allowing people to turn in their used needles for new ones
  11. 19. Acronym for a strategy that focused on zero tolerance (the “just say no” concept) and largely proved ineffective
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  1. 1. the process of discharging, on a large scale, patients from state mental hospitals to less-restrictive community settings
  2. 2. collective term for all diagnosable mental disorders
  3. 4. an alarm reaction that prepares one physiologically for sudden action
  4. 7. ECT; method of treatment for mental disorders involding the administration of electric current to the scalp to induce convulsions and unconsciousness
  5. 9. nearly half of people with mental illness are diagnosed with more than one disorder
  6. 11. service provider’s degree of compatibility with the specific culture of the population served
  7. 12. the emotional and social well-being, including one’s psychological resources for dealing with day-to-day problems of life
  8. 14. acronym for the nation’s leading mental health research agency, housed in the National Institutes of Health
  9. 15. woman who establishes public hospitals to provide decent care to indigents with mental illness