Addiction
What is the different between a lapse and relapse?
Lapse: brief and limited return to addictive behavior, temporary misstep in sobriety.
Relapse: A complete return to substance, including recurring addictive behaviors and substance use.
The main chemical in marijuana/cannabis and called:
THC
What are vision, smell, taste, touch, and hearing in DBT?
Self-soothing skills
This skill helps people cope with intense emotions or urges. It involves accepting and riding out emotions.
Physical and mental symptoms that a person has when they suddenly stop or cut back the use of an addictive substance.
What is withdrawal?
True or False:
Marijuana doesn't cause withdrawal symptoms
False! Symptoms include anxiety, irritability, insomnia, headaches, body aches, and nausea.
True or false: Pros and cons are most effective to do when you are having a crisis urge.
FALSE: Complete pros and cons BEFORE an overwhelming urge hits
What does “burning bridges and building new ones” mean?
Actively cut off all options for addictive behavior to occur. Build new bridges to help promote sobriety (i.e. healthy skills, new activities, social supports).
Define Addiction
When you are unable to stop a behavior pattern or substance use despite negative consequences and despite your best efforts to stop.
What do learning, memory, coordination, and judgement have in common?
Areas that are affected by THC use.
The purpose of crisis survival skills.
Tolerating difficult emotions without making things worse
These are the three states of mind when the crisis is addiction (similar to emotion, reasonable, and wise minds)
Addict, clean, clear mind
This develops when more of a substance is needed in order to get the same effect
Tolerance
True or False:
THC can trigger psychosis (hallucinations, paranoia, schizophrenia).
True: Heavy use is linked to an increased risk of psychosis and even developing schizophrenia, specifically in teens.
What does a pros and cons matrix look like?
Pros and cons of acting on a crisis urge/ resisting acting on crisis urge
Dialectical Abstinence balances these two view of recovery:
Abstinence and harm reduction
The presence of withdrawal symptoms when a person stops using a drug.
Dependence
Research has linked marijuana use to which mental health disorders?
Depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide, and suicide attempts.
How does cold water effect your body chemistry?
Causes the “Dive Response”- your brain thinks you are diving under water. Your heart slows down, blood flow is redirected to your brain and heart, and breathing slows. The dive response can help regulate your emotions.
What is the goal of dialectical abstinence
Not to engage in addictive behavior again. However, if there is a slip, the goal is to minimize harm and get back to abstinence as soon as possible.