Addiction
You can go to one of these to be with others in recovery. This can help you to remember that you can get through this. Get other people’s names and numbers to call in case of future cravings and urges.
What is NA/AA groups
This music artist had a hit pop song come out a few years before her death called 'Rehab'.
Amy Winehouse
What does DBT stand for?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
A written record of your thoughts and feelings.
Journaling.
The major organ that is directly effected the most by drug use.
What is the Brain?
What does the acronym HALT stand for?
Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired
This metallic man has been in recovery since 2003. He was introduced to drugs by his famous father and spent time in jail. He saw a resurgence in his popularity since entering recovery and staring in a series of hit movies.
Robert Downey Jr or "Iron Man"
skills that are strategies to help you get though difficult feelings and situations, and tolerate (deal with, sit with, accept) the things that you can’t immediately change.
Alternate Rebellion.
The practice of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress.
Self-care
What part of the brain fully develops by age 26.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What is the ideal continuum care?
Detox/Inpatient
PHP/IOP
General outpatient
This author, who wrote books such as Carrie and The Green Mile struggled with alcohol and prescription drug addiction for years.
Who is Stephen King?
strategy for effective communication. Using this skill, clients learn to express their needs and wants in a way that is respectful to themselves and others, increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes.
DEARMAN
Getting support from a neutral person who can help with mental health and addiction concerns.
Therapy or Counseling.
What part of the brain affects Fight-Flight-Freeze.
What is the Limbic system?
Person, Place, Thing, or event that may result in a relapse.
Triggers
A biopic of a famous country music legend and his rise to fame in Tennessee. While on tour, he meets the love of his life, singer June Carter. However, things take a turn when he becomes involved in drugs and his marriage to first wife, Vivian, begins to fall apart. June eventually helps him recover from his addiction and he proposes to her in front of a live audience.
Walk the Line (Johnny Cash)
"Wise mind" which is a balance between pure emotionality and pure logic.
Radical Acceptance.
A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique
Mindfulness.
Forms of MAT.
Campral (Acamprosate)
Buprenorphine (Subutex, Sublocade)
Name three consequences addiction can cause you.
Legal issues
Family discord
possible mental/physical health issues
homelessness
This famous rock star died officially of heart failure, but after his death reportedly was found to contain high dosages of, among other things, the opiates Dilaudid, Percodan, and Demerol, as well as Quaaludes and codeine.
King of Rock 'n Roll
Elvis Presley
What is a DBT skill that helps you move through cravings.
Urge surfing.
Doing or thinking about something different when you feel yourself being triggered to use substances.
Opposite Action.
Name two skills for the limbic system.
Exercise
Grounding
Deep breathing
TIPP