Phase Facts
How many weeks Phase 1, Orientation/Stabilization, lasts.
What is 8 weeks?
The monthly Program Fee, due by the last day of each month.
What is $200?
The day and time weekly case management documentation is due.
What is noon on Saturday?
The local agency where sanctioned community service is completed.
What is the Gretna Police Department?
Needing more and more of a substance to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
The four things the acronym HALT reminds you to check for.
What are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?
The curfew window Phase 1 participants must be home for.
What is 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.? (Phase 2 moves it to 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.)
The one-time Application Fee, paid in full before finishing Phase 1.
What is $150?
What you need STC staff permission to leave.
What is the State of Louisiana?
Consequences like extra community service, more frequent testing, or a short jail stay for not following program rules.
What are sanctions?
Shakiness, sweating, anxiety, or nausea when someone stops using a substance their body is used to.
What is withdrawal?
People, places, things, and feelings that spark cravings to use.
What are triggers?
Consecutive days of sobriety needed before promotion out of Phase 2.
What is 60 days?
What is it called when you leave the lab after checking in but before giving a sample.
What is a NO SHOW? (Treated as a positive test.)
The most approved self-help meetings you get credit for per day.
What is one?
Which usually brings a harsher response in drug court: admitting you used, or lying about it?
What is lying about it?
The brain chemical tied to pleasure and reward that most addictive substances flood the brain with.
What is dopamine?
A medication, often given as a nasal spray, that can reverse an opioid overdose.
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
Self-help meetings required each week in Phase 2 and 3.
What is 2? you are required to attend 2 self-help meetings weekly.
What a confirmation test costs, and how many hours you have to request it.
What is $50 within 48 hours? (The fee is due within 24hrs of the request.)
What you must report to your case manager or compliance officer, including traffic stops, citations, searches and arrests.
What is an interaction with law enforcement?
True or False: Treatment is marked by phases and Case Management is by levels.
False
The stage of going to groups, staying away from old hangouts, and actively changing behavior, usually in the first several months. ?
What is Action
A written plan listing your triggers, warning signs, coping strategies, and people to call.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Consecutive days of sobriety required before graduation.
What is 180 days?
The consequence for submitting, or trying to submit, an adulterated sample.
What is an immediate jail sanction?
The colored card you get from your case manager for the physician to sign before seeing a doctor.
What is the Blue Card?
What the judge issues if you miss your scheduled court date.
What is an attachment for your arrest?
The stage for someone eight months sober who still uses coping skills and supports. In this model, a slip sends you back to an earlier stage, not back to zero.
What is Maintenance?
Explain the difference between a LAPSE and a RELAPSE.
A lapse is a single slip or brief use; a relapse is a return to the old pattern of use.