Vocabulary
12 Step
Recovery
Relapse Prevention
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

This is the common name for the text used in 12 step programs

The Big Book 

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

Three things to consider changing when trying to avoid relapse back into old behaviors related to mental health or substance use recovery.

People, Places and Things

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

The second line of the Serenity prayer

"The courage to change the things I can"

200
A form of treatment wear the patient lives in a recovery facility
What is In patient treatment
200

When you feel triggered to use or drink, what should you do? 

Use healthy coping skills

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

The first version of the 12 step program?

Alcoholics Anonymous  

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

Having a _____ in place can reduce the risk of relapse

Relapse Prevention Plan

400
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger
400

The step in AA that states that you continue to take personal inventory and when you are wrong, you promptly admit it.

Step 10

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

Three things to consider changing when trying to avoid relapse?

People, Places and things

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

Third tradition of AA?

The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop drinking

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

Service where someone can help assist you in your recovery journey

Peer Support Specialist

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