Recovery
Meditation, mindfulness, open-communication, therapy, calling a sober friend, or contacting a sponsor are all examples of these useful skills in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
The changes made during the action stage are maintained. The individual may continue to face challenges, but at this point they have successfully changed their behavior for a significant period of time
What is the Maintenance stage?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion. I.e: whiskey
What is Alcohol?
Involves daily treatment, such as therapy, counseling, or group sessions, at a clinic or facility. Can continue to live at home as they recover, allowing them to take care of children or family members, keep up with their jobs, and stay on track in school.
What is OP (outpatient) treatment?
A prescription medicine used for the treatment of a known or suspected opioid overdose emergency with signs of breathing problems and severe sleepiness or not being able to respond.
What is Narcan?
After making changes, some individuals will return to their previous problem behavior. This can happen at any time during the previous stages.
What is Relapse?
Individuals are able to access this higher level of care that provides therapy on the individual, family, and/or group level. This treatment is typically long-term from 30 to 90 days or more.
What is Residential Treatment?
An American Christian twelve-step program designed to facilitate recovery from a wide variety of troubling behavior patterns. The global headquarters is in Lake Forest, California, United States.
What is Celebrate Recovery?
These prescribed and federally regulated medications can help an individual in recovery, start recovering from their addiction and structuring his or her life again.
What is Methadone, Vivitrol, Suboxone, and Naltrexone.
The costs of the problem behavior (such as drug use) are not yet recognized. The individual is in denial and is not seriously considering changing their behavior. They may have made previous attempts to change, but have since given up.
What is the Precontemplation stage?
Withdrawal from this drug can cause restless behavior, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, vivid and unpleasant dreams and slowing of daily activity.
What is cocaine?
This plan is comprised of measures, techniques, and many different tools to avoid falling back into bad habits. These are completed monthly with ARC, with your peer support.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
A person who familiarizes themselves with the 12-Step approach and works their way through the steps may be able and willing to help guide newcomers and those looking for extra support.
What is a Sponsor?
This is a website, allowing for virtual meetings, with the purpose of helping people with Drug Addiction, Alcoholism, Prescription Drug Addiction, Pain Killer Addiction and more.
What is intherooms.com?
Significant steps are taken to end the problem behavior. The individual might be avoiding triggers, reaching out for help, or taking other steps to avoid temptation.
What is the Action Stage?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating. I.e: coffee
What is caffeine?
"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable."
What is Step 1 of the 12 Steps?
Journaling, taking a long bath, going on a run, setting aside an hour a day to read are examples of this.
What is Self-care?
"Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever."
What is Bill's Story?
The individual has decided to change their behavior, and they begin to think about how to do so. During this stage they will begin to make minor changes to support their goal, but they might not have completely ended the unwanted behavior.
What is the Preparation Stage?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, drowsiness, insomnia, iritability, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety. I.e: cigs
What is nicotine?
Parents, relatives, or friends of an addicted person can lawfully intervene and request involuntary, court-ordered addiction treatment for their addicted loved one.
What is Casey's Law?
A program through this college, after approx. 3 months of sobriety that any client can participate in that allows them to become an intern then a peer support.
Millard College