Recovery
A form of treatment where the patient lives in a recovery facility
What is Inpatient/Rehab
This was developed in 1937 Germany which is now used to treat opioid dependence
What is Methadone
These are people, places, objects, feelings, and times that cause cravings.
What is Triggers
A therapeutic session where people share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process
What is Group therapy
This prescription injectable medicine is used to prevent relapse in opioid/alcohol dependent patients
What is vivitrol
This was begun in Akron, Ohio, in 1935, with a chance meeting between two alcoholics, one a doctor and one a broker.
What is A.A.
This class of drugs are natural and synthetic drugs that distort thinking, awareness and the senses.
What is Halluciogens.
The return to drug use after a period of abstinence
What is Relapse
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is Addiction
Tremors, difficulty concentrating, irritability, disturbed sleep, headache, sweating, and nausea
What is Withdrawal symptoms
Contacting those who have been hurt, unless doing so would harm the person
What is Step 9
These chemical products are misused to give the user a drug-like effect, and can cause lasting physical damage.
What is Inhalants.
A refusal to admit the truth or reality.
What is Denial
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is Detox
Most drugs of abuse target the brain’s reward system by flooding it with this "feel good" chemical.
What is Dopamine
This drug causes side effects such as malnutrition, cancer of the mouth, esophagus and stomach, and birth defects.
What is Alcohol.
HALT is the acronym for ______
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired.
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is Tolerance
This system, also known as the “brain reward system,” is responsible for producing feelings of pleasure.
What is The Limbic System
Making a list of wrongs done to others and being willing to make amends for those wrongs
What is Step 8
This drug can be made in small batches, with hazardous household and farm chemicals.
What is Methamphetamines.
In this stage of change, they may not see it as a problem, or they think that others who point out the problem are exaggerating.
What is Pre-contemplation