Mental Health
This diagnosis involves excessive worry that is difficult to control. It may involve sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and restlessness.
What is anxiety?
This is used to reverse an opioid overdose
What is narcan/naloxone?
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Serenity Prayer
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in.
Relapse Prevention Plan
_____ day at a time
One
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and or despair is a sign of this.
Depression
What does MAT stand for?
Medication assisted treatment
This person will help you navigate the program and is someone you can rely on is a time of need.
Sponsor
Name a coping skill
Any
the combination of physical and mental effects a person experiences after they stop using or reduce their intake of a substance such as alcohol and prescription or recreational drugs
Withdrawal
The acronym for C.B.T.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Lexapro, Prozac, Paxil, Celexa can treat this mental health diagnosis
depression or anxiety (either answer accepted)
The founder of NA
Jimmy Kinnon
____meeting in ____days
90, 90
Drugs cause this chemical in your brain to release more then normal amounts.
Dopamine
You can go to this person to talk about your thoughts and feelings one on one.
Therapist or counselor
This medication binds to opioid receptors in the brain, effectively blocking the effects of other opioid agents and alcohol.
Vivitrol or naltrexone
"We admitted we are powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable"
Step 1
Process that allows you to sit still, clear your mind, and focus on breathing.
Meditation
This increases as you continue to drink/use, requiring you to need more of your substance to feel the same high.
Tolerance
This refers to a collection of symptoms that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality. During an episode of this, a person's thoughts and perceptions are disrupted and they may have difficulty recognizing what is real and what is not.
Psychosis
A medication used in the treatment of alcohol use disorders by producing unpleasant side effects and sensitivity to alcohol. It is designed as a deterrent to drinking. Using alcohol, even a small amount, while taking this medication can lead to a reaction that may include flushing, throbbing headache, breathing problems (such as shortness of breath, fast breathing), nausea, vomiting, dizziness, extreme tiredness, fainting, fast/irregular heartbeat, or blurred vision.
Antabuse or Disulfiram
AA originated in this city
Akron, Ohio
the fifth stage of recovery - during the _____ stage the individual is working hard to prevent addiction recovery relapse, keeping up with lifestyle changes, regular exercise, paying attention to hygiene, sleep attending support groups
Maintenance stage
John William Huffman (1932–2022) was a professor of organic chemistry at Clemson University who first created this substance _______. He stated "It bothers me that people are so stupid as to use this stuff"
K2 or synthetic cannabinoids