Brain and addiction quiz answers

Human Service Questions

1. Review the "Between Marijuana and Schizophrenia" video. How does society get teenagers to understand the risk of using marijuana due to the dangers of triggering schizophrenia when there is so much media focus on the substance's harmlessness?

2. what happens in the brain and body chemistry that makes addiction so hard to overcome?

3. Which model of conceptualizing addiction makes the most sense to you? Do you think there can be a single model for conceptualization or is a multimodal approach more effective?

4. This weeks discuss a wide variety of theories focusing on addiction. What did you learn from these theories and how they are applied to addiction? The theories are all very different from one another, just as people are, so how can we decide which theory is right, or which theory fits best? Or is it ok to have a wide variety of theories to apply because when it comes down to it people are very different and there is no one "mold" that will fit all people effectively?

5.Part of this weeks we discussed addiction and treatment modalities. Much of that discussions was on the 12 step method which essentially re-teaches a person basic day to day skills (how to function effectively and drug free in society). It focuses on the basics and repairing damage that the persons addictions caused (by giving the person some accountability for their actions at certain steps). Why is this process successful for some? Why do you think that it takes many people a long time to succeed with this method?

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Write a 1,050-to 1,400-word paper briefly describing the models, how they are synergistic, or how they take competing views.

Include a summary about which theory you feel is most useful for helping intervene on addiction.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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The Etiology of Addiction Quiz Answer Key

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The Etiology of Addiction Quiz Answer Key
1. ____________________ serve as the chemical messengers of our brain.

2. True or False: The area of the brain in which addiction develops is called the limbic system.

3. The _________________________________________________ is considered one of the most important brain pathways of the addictive system process, because it is a major pathway for reward or punishment, pleasure or pain, motivation, and emotion.

4. True or False: The medial forebrain bundle bypasses the cerebral cortex so the addictive process occurs at an unconscious level.

5. The _______________ plays an important role in recording and replaying the significance of prior drug use to the person.

6. True or False: Neural pruning is a process in the brain that occurs as individuals age. This process is more active during the first few years of life with another spurt during adolescence. However, neural pruning goes on throughout life as humans learn new things and give up old habits. Researchers believe that the reason why individuals experience psychosis when smoking marijuana is that the natural human cannabenoid system is overwhelmed by smoking marijuana, which disrupts the dopamine system and the neural pruning process, leading to dysfunctional connections.

7. _________________ occurs when higher and lower levels of dopamine caused by drug use establish a molecular memory of a drug experience leading to cravings and the belief that the person needs drugs.

8. True or False: Binge drinking effectively poisons your body.

9. True or False: There is no connection between genetics and addiction.

10. There are pharmacological drugs that can help reduce drug cravings during withdrawal from certain substances. Name one and what it is used for. ___________________________