Behavioral Addiction

You need to pick a behavioral addiction. The possibilities are limitless. You need to DO SOME RESEARCH!!!! FIND AN ARTICLE AND LINK IT IN THE POST AND INCLUDE INFORMATION FROM THE ARTICLE IN YOUR RESPONSE.You article needs to help you do not just give my notes to me again. Then you need to compare the behavioral addiction you picked to substance addiction and also point out some differences. This should take you some time if done correctly.Due Thur BY 11:59pM!!!

Compare and Contrast : Depressants, Stimulants, and Hallucinogens

In this blog you need to use specific examples from the interventions we have watched to compare and contrast the three categories of drugs we have studied; depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens.

Due Nov. 20th

Intervention Application

Over the past few classes we have been watching numerous addicts battle their addictions. As we have watched we have learned that the addict is almost always triggered by something to start their usage and usually it was out of their control. Tell me some of the most frequent triggers seen and how seeing them and the havoc they caused affected you. Do some research about the trigger you have chosen and does research support your assumption of triggering substance abuse or dependency. What are you going to do to make sure you don't make the same mistakes in your future family or even now in your own life. Give me at least 2 and your action steps.

No blog Due

Alcohol Intervention

You need to give specific examples from today's intervention episode discussing the following terms... 

1. Triggers 
2. Withdraw
3. Tolerance
4. Judgment 
5. Co-dependence

Sleepwalker

Students need to find an article about an unusual case of sleepwalking or parasomnia. Briefly summarize the article for me. 

Sleep Journal

Link for Sleep Journal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J-H5sYfg_VHIAKudCInHxXQvKGqeTFMHOG-3NfEV1d8/edit