Treatment approach: utilizing effective healthy coping skills for ineffective behaviors, health of the mind, emotional intelligence
CBT and DBT
Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Who is Bill Wilson (Bill W.) or Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith (Dr. Bob)?
Is the fastest addicting drug...
Nicotine
What step is it when a person with time dates a new comer?
What is the 13th step?
With continued substance abuse the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure..
Dopamine
What is the third step in Narcotics Anonymous?
What is: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
Our brain learns by _________ and _________
Repetition and reward
What are two of the questions that Gateway staff or screeners ask before handing you the cup to complete your urine screen
Are you currently taking any medications?
Have there been any changes to your current medications?
Is there anything I need to know?
Is there anything you would like to share with us that could impede the outcome of your drug screen?
Process by which the body rids itself of a drug...
Detoxification
Housing that many people choose to live in after completing in-patient treatment
What is Sober Living?
Most commonly abused drug across the nation...
Marijuana
What are the four points of Smart Recovery?
What is
Substance with a high death rate in the U.S., higher than suicide
Fentanyl
What does HALT stand for?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired?
A realization period for someone suffering from addiction. It’s a stage where they will look outside of themselves, or inside of themselves, and find a newfound perspective or purpose.
Spiritual Awakening
What is the opposite of Addiction?
What is connection?
Most common addiction across the nation...
As of 2020, 79.5% of Americans abuse alcohol
S.T.O.P. (DBT Skill)
S: Stop! Don't say or do anything.
T: Take a step back. Actually step away from your partner. Notice how you're breathing. ...
O: Observe what's going on inside and outside. Observe your thoughts and feelings. ...
P: Proceed mindfully. Consult your wise mind.
What is the fourth step of Alcoholics anonymous
What is making a searching and fearless moral inventory of oneself
How many years until you are no longer considered a new comer within the 12 step programs?
What is 5 years?
One of the most common & effective coping skills a person in early recovery can develop is, this string of behaviors characterized by "a sequence of actions regularly followed"...
Routine
1st symptom experienced as a sign you're developing a substance abuse disorder...
Increased tolerance
People, Places, Things that cause people to have thoughts associated with substance abuse...
Triggers
A substance invented in 1800s Germany by Bayer Company & thought to be a cure for morphine addiction..
Heroin. Scientist who invented & used it reported it made them feel heroic, thus the name heroin.
Abstain from ALL illicit drugs and alcohol...
Sobriety