Recovery 1
People, Places, or Things that cause people to have thoughts associated with substance abuse.
What are Triggers
Recognition or affirmation that a person or their feelings or opinions
What is validation
This is defined as doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different outcome.
What is Insanity
moment-to-moment awareness of one’s experience without judgment. It can be promoted by certain practices or activities, such as meditation
What is mindfulness
Mental Health Disorder:
a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
2 organs most affected by vaping.
Lungs and brain
Stage of change: acknowledging that there is a problem but not yet ready, sure of wanting, or lacks confidence to make a change
What is contemplation
Process that allows you to sit still, clear your mind, and focus on breathing.
What is Meditation
A behavioral and brain disorder 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 addiciton
This happens when a substance becomes less effective and you have to increase use
What is tolerance
Mental Health Disorder that affects or exasperates Substance use: Symptoms can look like: Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and or despair is a sign of this.
What is Depression
What life style allows you to abstain from all drugs/alcohol use.
What is a Sober
Feelings of worry, racing thoughts, and restlessness are signs of this.
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy
Use despite negative consequences - chronic, biological brain disease -Psychological dependence -Physical dependence
What is addiction
You can go to this person to talk about your feelings one on one in a safe therapeutic environment
What is a Therapist
This increases as you continue to drink/use, requiring you to need more of your substance to feel the same high.
What is Tolerance
Stage of change: When people have made a commitment to make a change. Their motivation for changing is reflected by statements such as: “I’ve got to do something about this — this is serious. Something has to change
What is preparation
Practice healthy ___ ____ to overcome cravings and triggers.
What is Coping Skills
means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness
Drugs cause this chemical in your brain to release more then normal amounts.
What is Dopamine
The process by which the body rids itself of drugs.
What is Detoxification
Emotional or physical limits that people set to create a healthy sense of personal space.
What is boundaries
______ is a synthetic opioid that is 50-100 times stronger than morphine.
What is Fentanyl
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