Recovery Treatment
A form of treatment where the patient lives in a recovery facility.
What is Inpatient Rehabilitation?
To believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step 2?
These are people, places, objects, feelings, and times that cause cravings.
What are Triggers?
The term used for repeatedly keeping a person from experiencing the negative consequences of alcohol or drug use.
What is enabling?
This philosophy attempts to reduce the damage caused by addiction.
What is Harm reduction?
A therapeutic session where people share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process.
What is Group therapy?
This was begun in Akron, Ohio, in 1935, with a chance meeting between two alcoholics, one a doctor and one a broker.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A)?
The return to drug use after a period of abstinence.
What is Relapse?
Happens when Isolating and skipping 12-step or therapy meetings, poor sleeping or eating habits, cravings, and romanticizing.
What are signs of relapse?
Concurrent abuse of more than one substance.
What is poly substance abuse?
A 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?
Contacting those who have been hurt, unless doing so would harm the person.
What is Step 9?
A refusal to admit the truth or reality.
What is denial?
Al-Anon, Nar-anon, and Alateen…
What are meetings that family/friends can attend to learn about a loved ones addiction?
When we choose to discontinue taking all mind altering substances.
What is abstinence?
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?
This person is a guide, a mentor, and a fellow recovering addict, who volunteers their time to help a newcomer in the 12-step program.
What is Sponsor?
HALT is the acronym for ______.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired?
Celebrating successes and milestones.
What is one way a loved one can motivate you to work on your recovery?
A therapeutic process that interrupts beliefs and behaviors that result in lifestyle dysfunction.
What is CBT, or Relapse prevention?
When we admit or accept our behaviors. Opposite of denial.
What is taking responsibility?
Making a list of wrongs done to others and being willing to make amends for those wrongs.
What is Step 8?
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?
When family or friends keep drugs/alcohol away ; participate in positive and healthy activities.
What are ways a loved one can encourage healthy behaviors?
People, Places and Things.
What are Triggers?