Recovery 1
Most common addiction across the nation...
What is alcohol?
68% of Americans aged 18 and older used alcohol in the last year.
Substance with a high death rate in the U.S., higher than suicide
What is Fentanyl?
Process by which the body rids itself of a drug...
What is Detoxification?
A specific person, place, thing, or feeling that increases the risk of using
What is a Trigger?
A professional specializing in treating mental & emotional disorders is known as...
What is a Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Therapist, or Counselor?
Addiction is now widely understood to be this type of condition involving the brain.
What is a chronic brain disease?
Drinking or using because of stress or feelings is an example of this type of trigger
What is an emotional trigger?
Is the fastest addicting drug...
What is Nicotine?
Gives you too much time to be with your own thoughts
What is isolation/boredom?
What is STEP 1 in NA/AA
Admit that we are powerless over out addiction and that our lives have become unmanageable.
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or dispair...
What is Depression?
Feelings of worry, uneasiness, or dread...
What is Anxiety?
Medicines like methadone or buprenorphine are used in this evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder.
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) services?
It is referred to as an inability to maintain behavior change over time.
What is a Relapse?
Violent or aggressive behavior within the home.
What is Domestic Violence?
Stress disorder AFTER traumatic event...
What is PTSD?
Abstain from ALL illicit drugs and alcohol...
What is Sobriety or being clean?
Onsite Treatment for addiction
What is Residential Treatment/REHAB?
Insanity
A plan outlining triggers, coping strategies, and emergency contacts is known as this.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Person who guides you through the steps and principals.
What is a sponsor?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a Craving?
What does HALT stand for
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
1st symptom experienced as a sign you're developing a substance abuse disorder...
what is Increased tolerance?
This everyday practice involves staying aware of thoughts and feelings without judgment and is often used in recovery.
What is mindfulness?
A psychotherapy helping people heal from trauma by processing distressing memories, often involving eye movements or other bilateral stimulation while recalling the memory, reducing its emotional impact, and fostering new, positive beliefs about oneself
Recognized by major health organizations for PTSD and trauma, it's a structured treatment, usually lasting 6-12 sessions, that guides the brain to reprocess unresolved experiences, making them less disturbing and enabling healing.
What is step 10
Continue to take personal inventory and when you are wrong to it.
What is step 8
Make a list of people we have harmed and make amends to them all.
These physical and mental symptoms that can last up to 3 years depending on the substance(s) used.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PTSD)?
Something greater than yourself in recovery
HIGHER POWER
Our brain learns by _________ and _________
What is Repetition and Reward?
What is a Testimony
What is a personal story of recovery?
This type of counseling helps individuals change thoughts and behaviors linked to substance use.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?
A type of talk therapy that helps people manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and cope with stress by teaching skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, originally for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) but now used for various conditions like PTSD, depression, and substance addiction, focusing on accepting reality while working to change unhelpful behaviors
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
This brain chemical, linked to reward and motivation, is strongly affected by most addictive substances.