Addiction Terminology

Question 1

Addiction

Answer 1

The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.

Question 2

Physical Addiction:

Answer 2

When you introduce drugs into your body, your system will compensate by creating its own chemical reactions to counter their effects. In time though, your body will stop reacting to the substances in the way it did when they were first introduced, and developing a tolerance.

Question 3

Psychological Addiction:

Answer 3

Psychological Addiction: is the mental and emotional attachment to addiction.

Question 4

Tolerance:

Answer 4

A condition that occurs when the body gets used to a medicine so that either more medicine is needed or different medicine

Question 5

Euphoria:

Answer 5

Euphoria: feeling or state or happiness or intense excitement.

Question 6

Dysphoria:

Answer 6

Dysphoria: the state of unease or disappointment

Question 7

Withdrawal:

Answer 7

Withdrawal: combination of physical and mental effects that a person experiences after they stop using or reduce their intake of a substance such as alcohol and prescription or recreational drugs.