Communication
70 % of our time
What is the amount of time spent communicating?
Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
What is PAWS?
The answer to all my problems today
What is acceptance?
Group of individuals dealing with similar issues that meets to support each other and share helpful information
What is a self help group?
The patterns of relating, or interactions, between family members
What are family dynamics?
150 words per minute
What is the rate of speech?
A powerful and strong desire for a substance
What is a craving?
The NA equivalent of the Big Book
What is the Basic Text?
Condition in which one must increase use of a drug for it to have the same effect
What is tolerance?
The mediator who tries to reduce conflict between family members who are arguing or experiencing conflict
What is the peacekeeper?
1000 words per minute
What is the rate of hearing?
Anything that provokes a memory or impulse to resume using drugs or alcohol
What is a trigger?
An account of one's resentments and personal character defects, undertaken in step four
What is an inventory?
The body’s physiologic adaptation to a substance
What is physical dependence?
The black sheep of the family while other members are viewed as good or well behaved
Who is the scapegoat?
55% of communication
How much communication is nonverbal?
Failure to either admit or realize addiction or to recognize and accept the harm it can cause
What is denial?
An addict's alleged helplessness over the urge to drink or use substances in an addictive way
What is powerlessness?
A narcotic antagonist that blocks the effects of opioids
What is naltrexone?
Consist of two parents (usually married or common law) and their children
What is a nuclear family?
key to achieving goals
What is communication?
Short term gratification, long term pain, addictive thinking, increased tolerance, loss of control, and bio-psycho-social damage
What is the addictive cycle?
According to the definitive text of AA, these personality traits—“selfish, dishonest, self-seeking, and fear”—are said to block the alcoholic from contact with God
What are character defects?
Helping an addicted person do things they can or should be doing for themselves; causes disease progression
What is enabling?
A family in which conflict and instability are common
What is a dysfunctional family?