Addiction
Strong urges to use a substance
What is a craving?
What will you do if you have a craving?
Who is most responsible for a person's recovery?
A) The Counsellor B) Support Group C)Treatment center D) The individual
Who is an individual
a compulsive, chronic, physiological, or psychological need for a substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, and social effects
What is an addiction?
Addiction is a disease that is completely treatable
TRUE
Like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, addiction is caused by a combination of behavioral, psychological, environmental and biological factors. Genetic risk factors account for about half of the likelihood that an individual will develop addiction.
A___________ is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction.
What is an intervention? ................. Furthermore, how do we feel about an intervention? does it help? is it damaging? Loss of connection? not doing it enabling?
Physical and psychological discomfort that follows the discontinuation of a substance.
What is withdrawal?
In 1939 a basic text describing how to recover from alcoholism was released.
What is the Big Book? AA book.
Your body becomes used to a substance and needs more of it to feel its effects.
What is tolerance?
Often in treatment, this decreases, which could put a person at risk of an overdose if they were to use again.
I can continue to stay in contact with my AFM counselor even after I graduate from the program.
TRUE
Drug use causes the brain to produce, absorb, and transmit less of this chemical, resulting in chemical imbalances in the brain.
What is Dopamine?
Dopamine is an important brain chemical that influences your mood and feelings of reward and motivation.
To fall or slip back into unhealthy using behaviors
What is a relapse?
Which is a warning sign of relapse?
A) Overconfidence B) Isolation
C)Testing Control D) All of the above
D) ALL OF THE ABOVE
What are some other warning signs??
A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, or pain, whether the threat is real or imagined
What is Fear?
Is fear always bad? is it a cue for action?
After a reasonable amount of time sober, I can successfully return to being a "Functional User" again.
FALSE
What is the most commonly abused drug in the world?
What is Caffiene?
Name two ways drug abuse can affect you personally
OPEN FOR DISCUSSION
S.M.A.R.T. this acronym stands for what?
Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic & Timely
The ability to believe in and rely on others and have them believe in and rely on us.
What is Trust
Resentment allows us to change the person we resent and helps to solve conflict.
FALSE
According to the Big Book, this is the #1 offender in recovery and destroys more alcoholics than anything else.”
What is resentment?
resentment is where one relives some past event, and feels the emotion from that event as if it were happening right now. Resentment is literally to "feel again",(the fuel that feeds the fires of our addictions
Where does addiction stem from?
Various combinations of Biological, Psychologic, Societal, and spiritual factors. (very complex) (trauma etc)
What are Second Stage Sober Living Homes?
Limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships
What are boundaries?
Rat Park was an experiment conducted by Bruce Alexander
TRUE
This response can happen in the face of imminent physical danger or as a result of a psychological threat (such as preparing for big presentation or job interview
What is the Fight of Flight response?