Time Bomb Tactics
Fill in the blank. The first category of tactics focuses on shifting blame and this?
What is focus
The term when you need more of a drug to get the desired effect?
What is Tolerance
True or False: Addiction is the result of poor values and a lack of willpower?
What is False
If you are like most people who seek help for substance abuse problems, in the very early stages you probably still harbor some feelings of ambivalence about giving up your drug of choice, and you may still be what ?about the full extent of your problem.
What is "In denial"
True or False: Helping an addict pay the rent on their apartment is an example of enabling?
True
This second category of tactics is really focused on deceiving others, it is also focused on the act of?
What is lying
The program that most addicts are asked to participate in?
What is the 12 Step Program
The relapse process is a lot like knocking over a line of dominoes. The first domino hits the second, which hits the third, and soon a chain reaction starts that throws us in the vicious cycle of what?
What is addiction
This type of prevention plan is designed to help you stay in recovery when you leave your recovery program
What is a relapse prevention plan
What is contemplation
This particular tactic is all about blowing up at others to make quite a scene over something small.
What is Makes a big scene over minor issues.
The term used to describe the physical effects that someone experiences when they stop using a substance?
What is Withdrawal
This process comes with a great deal of shame and what? and requires learning to forgive yourself and others, as well as the practice of complete honesty.
What is guilt?
Going through withdrawal symptoms or having these? are when we are most vulnerable to a relapse.
What are cravings?
Enabling is a what?, and like most what, it can be broken. Here are nine steps families can take to break the enabling cycle.
What is a habit or habits
The group of tactics is all about ignoring these?
What are Obligations
These are things you do in recovery to ensure that you don't relapse when you leave a recovery program?
What are pro-socials, alternatives to using, or protective factors.
This tells people that you are about to be triggered or you might be heading for a relapse
What is a warning sign
If you are in a 12 step program, this is the best person to call if you are thinking of relapse or after a relapse.
Who is your Sponsor
In this stage, recovering addicts focus on maintaining their new patterns of behavior and avoiding temptation. Those in this stage are learning to incorporate their new behaviors into their long-term identities, goals, and activities.
what is maintenance
The real issue with using time bomb tactics is that it keeps you from being...what?
What is accountable, responsible, or honest with yourself and others.
These are things that give you higher chance to become addicted to substances more than most other people if you happen to have one of them.
What are Risk Factors
If you think having one drink, one smoke, or one pill won't hurt while you are in recovery, you are likely heading for a...what?
What is a relapse
This is the top reason males relapse
What is refusing to give up substance using friends or their using environment.
When addicts have access to drugs, they take them, and they take all of them. This isn’t a celebration; it’s a sickness. Stopping the enabling cycle means respecting that addiction is a what ?and refusing to participate in it.