Grief
This is the natural emotional response to a loss.
What is grief.
This term refers to a pattern of substance use that causes significant impairment or distress.
What is substance use disorder?
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), how many millions of Americans (aged 12 and older) battled substance use disorder in 2024.
A. What is 48.4 million
B. What is 90 million
C. What is 2 million
D. What is 14.5 million
A. What is 48.4 million
People often grieve the death of this, such as a parent, child, spouse sibling, or friend
What is a loved one?
What is emotions or feelings?
This type of grief occurs before a death or loss has actually happened
What is anticipatory grief?
When emotions becomes all-consuming-especially if there is a lack of emotional support-drugs and alcohol may seem like a quick, though temporary, escape to regulate distress.
What is self-mediciation?
Grief and substance use disorder can interact in this way, where each one makes the other worse.
What is a cycle or bidirectional relationship?
People may grieve the death of this animal companion, even when others do not fully understand the depth of the loss
What is a pet?
The death of this type of relationship has been found to be a common experience in women dealing with substance use disorder
What is the death of a significant other
This theory suggests that people move back and forth between confronting the loss and avoiding the pain of the loss
What is the Dual Process Model of Grief?
Alcohol and drugs may cause people to lose this and do things they normally would not do
What is control?
While substances temporarily mask pain, they prevent the brain from fully processing the loss, ultimately leading to stalling of the grieving process and causing...
What is complicated or prolonged grief?
A person may grieve the end of this type of connection, such as a divorce, breakup, estrangement, or friendship ending
What is a relationship?
This social factor can influence how women grieve, including expectations around motherhood, caregiving, marriage, and family roles
What are gender roles?
This type of grief is not openly acknowledged, socially supported, or publicly mourned such as a pregnancy loss or miscarriage or loss connected to addiction or overdose
What is disenfranchised grief?
Alcohol and drugs are described as this, because they take away friendships, jobs, health, money and time
What is a thief?
In recovery, people may grieve losing these behaviors connected to drug use before, during, or after using
What are rituals?
People may grieve the loss of this after an illness, injury, disability, infertility, or major life change
What is health or physical ability?
This term describes the emotional burden women may carry when they support everyone else's grief while neglecting their own
What is emotional labor?
This grief theory suggests that healing does not require "letting go" of the person who died, but instead involves finding a new, lasting relationship with their memory
What are continuing bonds?
In recovery, people may move from seeing themselves as hopeless addicts to this more hopeful identity
What is a recovering alcoholic or addict?
This type of treatment focus helps clients process loss while also building healthier coping skills for recovery
People can grieve this when life does not turn out the way they hopes, such as the loss of a dream, identity, career, home, or future they imagined
What is an expected future or imagined life?
Women may grieve not only the death itself, but also changes to their roles, identity, and sense of self, especially after the loss of a spouse, child, pregnancy, or caregiving relationship
What is role loss?