Addiction/Recovery Terms
What are triggers?
A treatable, chronic medical disease that involves complex interactions among the brains circuits, genetics, the environment, and individual life experiences.
What is Addiction?
People in this stage typically do not consider their behavior to be a problem.
Anger, fear, excitement, depression, anxiety, etc. are examples.
What are Internal Triggers?
This substance will not restore senses affected by alcohol, such as vision, but it is often offered as a quick fix.
What is coffee?
"Grant me the serenity to accept he things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference today."
What is the Serenity Prayer?
The part of the brain that is most affected through addiction.
What is the limbic system?
This is the stage at which real change—change of behavior—starts happening.
What is the Action stage?
True or False Question: An urge is a useful signal that a stressful situation is occurring
True: Urges signal your body to manage your addiction to prevent a relapse?
This drug causes side effects such as malnutrition, cancer of the mouth, esophagus and stomach, as well as, birth defects.
What is Alcohol?
A powerful & strong psychological desire to consume a substance or engage in an activity; a symptom of the abnormal brain adaptions that result from addiction
What is Craving?
True or False Question: Substance use disorders are unable to be reversed.
People in this stage are generally more open to receiving information about the possible consequences of their addictive behavior.
What is the Contemplation Stage?
Using friends, dealer's house, home alone, weekends, when in pain, during work, etc. are examples.
What are External Triggers?
Depressant drugs (e.g., alcohol, opiates, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines) are typically used to cope with this
What is stress?
Pre-contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, and sometimes Relapse.
What are the stages of change?
The process by which the addicted brain creates excuses to allow for the person in recovery to move closer to points of relapse situations in which accidents can occur.
What is Justification?
Person has moved forward to planning and preparing for carrying out changes they learned about in the contemplation stage.
What is the Preparation Stage?
Stopping the thought about using when it first begins to prevent it from building into a overpowering cravings involves this.
What is Thought Stopping?
Which is not a long-term effect of heroin use: a)permanent heart problems b)liver disease c)blindness d)collapsed veins
What is C) Blindness?
This is what H.A.L.T stands for
What is Hungry, Anger, Lonely, and Tired?
Drugs that produce intense euphoria. Produced in larger surges of neurotransmitters which powerfully reinforce the connection between consumption of the drug.
What is Dopamine?
People are working to upholding the intentions made during the preparation stage and the behaviors introduced in the action stage.
What is the Maintenance Stage?
Name at least 2 protective factors from developing a Substance Use Disorder.
What are:
Minimal exposure to drugs
Supportive family and friends
Exposure to positive influences
Good academic performance
This Mental health diagnosis often goes along with addiction