Self-Help
A fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism
What is AA?
The 3 stages of the disease of addiction in the brain.
What is Binge (Intoxication), Withdrawal (Negative Effect) and Preoccupation (Anticipation)?
The pain that develops when an addicted person stops using alcohol or drugs. Also known as detoxification or detox.
What is Withdrawal?
This medically-assisted treatment allows you to rid your body of addictive substances in a safe environment. This is beneficial because sometimes substance withdrawal can cause unpleasant or even life-threatening physical symptoms.
What is Detox?
This Disney Star, who is known for her acting in Camp Rock and singing career recently overdosed after several years clean and sober. She is working to regain her sobriety.
Demi Lovato
A fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. A collective of recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean.
What is NA?
Motivates individuals to continue to engage in using.
What is Stress and Reward ?
When larger and larger doses must be taken to produce the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
This treatment can be used to reduce cravings, improve mood, and decrease addictive behaviors. It also helps reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
This star of Home Alone reported a past addiction of alcohol, sedatives, and heroin
Macaulay Culkin
Meet with peers who are also in recovery and participate in a social environment free of substances
What is Support Groups?
The stage in which a person may begin to seek substances again after a period of abstinence.
What is Preoccupation Anticipation?
Which organ is directly affected by addiction?
What is The brain?
This type of treatment offers 24-hour highly structured and intensive care, including safe housing and medical attention.
What is Inpatient/residential treatment or rehab?
This lead singer of a 90s grunge band suffered from a heroin addiction throughout most of his career. Although his death is highly debated it was ultimately ruled a suicide.
Kurt Cobain
A therapist helps substance related thoughts and behaviors and increase motivation for change.
What is Individual Therapy?
Different Classes of Substances Affect the Brain and Behavior in Different Ways
What is true?
The neurotransmitter most related to the reward zone pathway in my brain is _____. (Hint: this takes time to regulate itself after becoming sober)
What is Dopamine?
This type of treatment offers group therapy and generally facilitates 6-30 hours a week of programming for addiction treatment. It allows the individual to be able to participate in their daily affairs and then participate in treatment at an appropriate facility in the morning or at the end of the day.
What is Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)?
This actor, who is best known for his role as Iron Man, reports that he has been sober since 2003 attributes his recovery to the 12 steps, yoga, and meditation.
Robert Downy Jr.
MAT is a medically assisted treatment process in which you can opt in or out freely.
What is true?
Opioids attach to opioid receptors in the brain, which leads to a release of _______________
What is dopamine?
Irritability and hostility, Depression, Anxiety, Mood swings, low energy and fatigue, sleep disruption, including insomnia, Limited ability to focus or think clearly, and inexplicable chronic pain can occur 1-2 weeks after substance use cessation and are all symptoms of this
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal (PAWS)?
Requirements for Detox clients at Ascensa Health to move to residential.
What is Successful completion of Detox?
This decorated Grammy winner coined the phrase "Crack is Wack"?
Whitney Houston