Treatment Types
the process by which all traces of alcohol and drugs are removed from the body, ensuring that a person is physically stable and ready to start therapy.
What is Detox
a spirit (or god) that has divine power over people's lives and nature.
What is a Higher Power
refers to a person’s integrity and moral compass. It’s common for people who are trapped in addiction to lie and steal to get their next fix
What is Honesty
an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior even though it is causing psychological and physical harm
What is an Addiction
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
What is step 3
a form of substance abuse rehabilitation in which people visit a treatment center several days a week for a few hours at a time.
What is IOP
learning to relinquish your control, realize your limitations, and face reality. This is one of the biggest subjects discussed in The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, and probably the most quoted in all of recovery literature
What is Acceptance
This refers to putting others before yourself.
What is Unselfishness
Act; Process. they are receiving treatment for their drug or alcohol addiction. the process of combating a disorder or a real or perceived problem.
What is Recovery
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is step 5
a live-in health care facility providing therapy for substance use disorders, mental illness, or other behavioral problems.
What is Residential or Inpatient
The primary purpose of AA is to help members stay sober and to have them, in turn, help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
What is carry the message
refers to receiving "......" by giving it to others. It is also defined as beauty. Addiction can be tormenting and horrifying for its victim but applying this can erase its ugliness.
What is Love
completely refraining from a particular behavior or substance.
What is Abstinence/Sober
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is step 9
a cognitive– behavioral approach with the goal of identifying and addressing high-risk situations for relapse and assisting individuals in maintaining desired behavioral changes.
What is Relapse Prevention
A burning desire to affect and control not only yourself, but those around you as well. All things in your sphere of existence. In reality, believing that you can control the world around you is the ultimate example of selfishness.
What is Self Will Run Riot
refers to identifying the difference between what is right and wrong and choosing to do the right thing. This leaves no room for anything that isn’t honest and good.
What is Purity
deterioration after a period of improvement.
(a deterioration in someone's state of health after a temporary improvement.)
What is Relapse
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
What is step 6
This type of addiction treatment program is more intensive than IOP (intensive outpatient) but less so than full inpatient or residential rehab.
What is PHP
A popular saying that members use to encourage members to be fully involved in the 12 Steps and the 12 Traditions.
What is It Works If You Work It
the combination of physical and mental effects that a person experiences after they stop using or reduce their intake of a substance
What is Withdrawal
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out
What is step 11