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True or false. Some research indicates that longer term programs are more effective than shorter term programs.
What is true?
What is an intense desire or urge for a substance?
What is craving?
True or False: A relapse prevention plan should not be revised and re-evaluated
False. A relapse prevention plan should be continually looked at and re-evaluated to ensure that it fits current feelings, situations, etc.
These are people, places, or situations that may increase the risk of relapse.
What are triggers?
An emotional state that can increase the urge to use
What is stress?
True or False: All recovering persons experience equally strong tendencies toward reoccurrence of use
False – Relapse risk varies among individuals and depends on multiple factors, including coping skills and environment.
How does addiction impact decision-making?
what is Impairment?
What drug is the quickest to become addicted to?
What is Nicotine?
What is the process by which the body rids itself of a drug and alcohol?
What is detox?
True or False: It’s legal to feed alcohol to moose in Alaska.
False - it's illegal.
True or False: When a person has an addiction, they have full control over their choices
False – Addiction impairs the ability to control behavior despite awareness of consequences
Which coping skill do you practice when you inhale for four seconds, hold for four seconds, and exhale for four seconds?
What is Box Breathing?
What is it called when you have too much time to be with your own thoughts?
What is isolation and boredom?
This involves making healthy choices to improve physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
What is self-care?
Used to combat heroin/opiate overdose...
What is Narcan or Naloxone?
What is the stress disorder AFTER traumatic event called?
What is PTSD?
A ____ is helpful for an individual to take control of their future sobriety and avoid future reoccurrence of use.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
Exposure to ________ is associated with drug addiction in humans and can induce relapse and craving.
What is stress?
Cravings usually do not last forever and often pass when you do this
What is ride the urge? (urge Surfing)
These skills help us manage our emotions related to difficult times to improve emotional health and help us grow as people. Also help us manage our behaviors, attitudes, and decreases the chances of a relapse.
What are healthy coping skills?
What is P. A.W. S.?
What is Post-Acute-Withdrawal-Syndrome?
This slogan reminds people not to become overly hungry, angry, lonely, or tired.
What is HALT?
When these four basic physical and emotional needs go unmet, a person becomes much more vulnerable to relapse.
The withdrawal from these two substances can be fatal?
What is Alcohol and Benzos?
What are the three "relapse cycles"?
Relapse is no longer viewed as a single “event” but as a process with stages:
Emotional relapse – poor coping, isolation, neglecting self-care before any use
Mental relapse – internal conflict between wanting to stay sober and considering use
Physical relapse – actual substance use
The safest decision is sometimes choosing not to attend; this is called setting these.
What are boundaries?