Addiction/Recovery
When someone continues to do things for a person in addiction that helps the person stay addicted
What is Enabling or Codependency?
Starred in the movie 'Silence of the Lambs' and has over 40 years of sobriety
What is Anthony Hopkins
People who are assigned and paid to provide recovery support in the community, somewhat like a guide or companion.
What is a Recovery Coach.
A substance invented by the Bayer Company in Germany in the late 1800's and thought to be a cure for morphine addiction.
Heroin
Refraining from further drug use
What is Abstinence?
Based in Buddhist principles; mutual aid group.
Recovery Dharma or Refuge Recovery
Starred in the movies 'The Town', 'Good Will Hunting', and 'Dazed and Confused'. Quote: "I feel like I had a problem, and I really want to address it. I take some pride in that."
Who is Ben Affleck
These people are not paid to assist/support and guide individuals through the 12 steps.
What are Sponsors
This term actually means to induce sleep, but the public often interprets it, wrongly, to mean any legal drug sometimes used illegally.
What is Narcotic?
One’s failure to either admit or realize his or her addiction or to recognize and accept the harm it can cause
What is Denial or Precontemplation
3 currently approved FDA medications for treating Opioid use Disorder.
What are Naltrexone (Vivitrol), Burprenorphine (Subutex/Suboxone), Methadone.
On July 24, 2018, she was hospitalized just a month after the singer admitted in her single "Sober," that she relapsed following six years of sobriety.
Who is Demi Lovato
This agency previously only provided recovery support services to individuals with an incarceration history, however, their services are now available to individuals without an incarceration history.
What is All Inclusive Support Services.
Phone: 413-781-2050
from the point of total cost and harm to the community, this substance is usually considered by experts to be the most 'dangerous' drug? This is probably due to its widespread use in most places.
What is Alcohol
Reducing or ceasing substance abuse; often followed by one’s personal life being turned around by way of a supportive environment
What is Recovery?
F14.20
What is Cocaine use disorder; severe.
Wrote the song Tiny Dancer
Elton John
(Over 30 years sober)
a 6-month program designed for individuals who have a substance use disorder (SUD), and who are seeking support with their recovery. This agency enables participants to create a recovery plan, with financial support, unique to their own needs and choose from a wide range of recovery support services.
What is Access to Recovery.
Phone: (617) 945-6403
These are a class of medication approved to treat generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia, seizures, social phobia, and panic disorder. Typically are not recommended for long term use.
What are Benzodiazepines.
(Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, etc..)
Side effects: Severe Headaches, Insomnia, Anxiety, Seizures, and possible death.
Some researchers hypothesize that this substance, not commonly referred to with other addictive substances, contributes to the highest mortality rates related to its use.
What is refined Sugar.
Wrote the famous lyric, "Please stand up, Please stand up"-Slim
Who is Marshal Mathers/Eminem
(11 years sober)
These residences are privately owned and designed to house people in recovery with limited supervision; allowing people to work, pay rent/establish rental history, attend meetings, and develop relationships with others in recovery.
What are Sober Houses?
First developed in 1959. Then, it was primarily used as an anesthetic and pain reliever for medical purposes.
What is Fentanyl.
The greater effect that results when one takes more than one drug simultaneously
What is Synergism?
Examples?