Vocabulary
Addiction
Recovery/AA
MAT
Intervention/Treatment
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

Invented excuses that are used to continue problematic behavior

What are justifications

100

Came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

What is Step 2

100

Gabapentin, Antibuse and Naltrexone

What are medications used for Alcohol Use Disorder treatment

100

90 days

What is the minimum time recommended in treatment to have best chance of success

200

Can be defined as a defense mechanism where information is selectively ignored or there is a refusal to acknowledge reality.

What is denial

200

slurred or distorted speech, lack of coordination, euphoria (feeling high), dizziness, and hallucinations

What are effects of inhalants

200

The twelfth tradition asks members to place this before personalities.


What is principles (of A.A.).

200

used to treat both opiate and alcohol use disorder

Naltrexone/Vivitrol

200
trying to protect an addict from facing the consequences of their drug related problems
What is enabling
300

The effect or the subject's reaction to a substance increases following repeated use

What is reverse tolerance

300

Endocarditis and Hep-C

Consequences of IV drug use

300

Step 10 advises that we continue to watch for these 4 things (2 out of 4 will result in a correct answer)

     

What is selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, fear

300

Baclofen, Topamax

What are medications used for Cocaine Use Disorder

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

Are the 2 most dangerous drugs to detox from

Alcohol and benzodiazepines

400

According to page 417 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, what is the answer to all my problems today?

What is acceptance

400

Binds to opioid receptors but activates them less strongly.

What is a partial opioid agonist (example Buprenorphine)

400

The term describing the moment/situation that occurs right before the user gets help for their addiction or that causes a person to seek help.

What is rock bottom

500

When we reward a behavior, it increases. When we punish a behavior, it decreases

What is operant conditioning

500
  1. Taking the substance in larger amounts or for longer than you're meant to.
  2. Wanting to cut down or stop using the substance but not managing to.
  3. Spending a lot of time getting, using, or recovering from use of the substance.
  4. Cravings and urges to use the substance.
  5. Not managing to do what you should at work, home, or school because of substance use.

What are the DSM 5 Criteria for Substance use Disorder

500

According to AA, if we are planning to stop drinking, there must be absolutely no what?

     

     

What is reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion, that someday we will be immune to alcohol.

500

A set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. It is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs.

What is Harm Reduction

500

The procedure that exposes alcohol-dependent patients to the sight and smell of alcohol without allowing consumption in an attempt to weaken the conditioned response to cues that cause cravings

What is Cue-Exposure Therapy

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