Peer Term
An individual’s first-hand experience with a mental health and/or substance use challenges, including the process of recovery and engagement of resiliency within the experience.
What is Lived Experience?
An alkaloid that acts as a diuretic and a stimulant (found in coffee, tea, etc.)
What is Caffeine?
The process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential. This process of change recognizes cultural diversity and inclusion and honors the different routes to resilience and recovery based on the individual and their cultural community.
What is Recovery?
The concentration level of alcohol in the bloodstream (expressed as a percentage by weight)
What is Blood Alcohol Level?
The conscious and deliberate process of creating and adapting patterns of behavior that lead to improved health in the following dimensions: emotional, =financial, social, spiritual, educational/occupational, physical, intellectual, and environmental.
What is Wellness?
Refraining from further drug use
What is Abstinence?
An individual’s capacity to successfully meet life’s challenges, nurtured to have a sense of self-determination, mastery and hope.
What is Resiliency?
A repeated activity that continuously causes harm to oneself or others (e.g. a substance’s continuous presence in the bloodstream).
What is Addiction?
discrimination against an identifiable group of people, a place, or a nation. Stigma about people with SUD might include inaccurate or unfounded thoughtslike they are dangerous, incapable of managing treatment, or at fault for their condition
What is Stigma?
One’s failure to either admit or realize his or her addiction or to recognize and accept the harm it can cause
What is Denial?