Vocabulary
Stages Of Adiction
Recovery
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

The first stage of addiction

What is experimentation

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
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

How would you describe the second phase of addiction? Give at least two characteristics.

Mood swings, personality changes, more cravings, high risk behavior and hanging out with other users

200

A form of treatment where the patient lives in a recovery facility

What is In patient treatment

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 the third phase of addiction called

What is dependency and tolerance

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

Give two examples of characteristics of the total dependency stage of addiction

needs drug to function normally, loses control in actions, loses intrest in priorities, physically and emotionally exhausted, tolerance to drug, overdose may occur

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
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

If the problem goes untreated accidental or intended _________ may occur.

What is overdose

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

One successful way to make the user aware of their problem is to give them an

What is direct examples of their addiction/ an ultimatum

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