Vocabulary
Stages Of Change
Recovery
Getting Started
Intervention
100
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is Addiction
100

Typically do not consider their behavior to be a problem. This may be because they have not yet experienced any negative consequences of their behavior, or it may be a result of denial about the negativity or severity of the consequences they have experienced.

What is precontemplation

100
An ___________ is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
What is an intervention
100

The need to take more of the same drug to get the same effect as before or becoming physically ill without the drug. 

What is physical dependence?

100
Usually happens right before the user hits ________
What is rock bottom
200
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial
200

Refers to the stage at which the person engaging in the addictive behavior begins to think about changing, cutting down, moderating, or quitting the addictive behavior

What is contemplation?

200
A form of treatment wear the patient lives in a recovery facility
What is In patient treatment
200
Performing less, less motivated, trouble with co-workers and supervisors, missing days and/or coming in late

What is impact on your job or school?

200
trying to protect an addict from facing the consequences of their drug related problems
What is enabling
300
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is Detox
300

What is preparation in the stages of change model?

The person has moved forward to planning and preparing for carrying out changes they learned about in the contemplation stage

300
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is Detox
300

Drinking or using drugs to handle day to day challenges.

What is not coping with problems?

300
People who become overly concerned with another's addiction problem and feel driven to fix or control it
What are codependents
400
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger
400

What is action in the stages of change model?

What is the focus for many people attempting to overcome addiction. This is the stage at which real change—change of behavior—starts happening

400
A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently in a therapeutic session that share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process
What is A support group
400

People may say or something that they later regret, lose friends, harm or cause distance in relationships.

What is impact on social life

400
Who usually participates in an intervention (name at least three)
What is friends, family, co workers, the addict
500
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is Tolerance
500

Who developed stages of change model?

What is James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente 

*1 author is correct, last name accepted, NOT first name*

500
A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/ addictive behavior
What is relapse
500

Decreasing level of interest or ability to enjoy loving relationships.

What is impact on relationships and sexuality. 

500
one successful way to make the user aware of their problem is to give them
What is direct examples of their addiction/ an ultimatum
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