Co-Occurring Disorders
Name 3 Co-Occurring Disorders
What are Bi-Polar, Clinical Depression, PTSD, Anxiety Disorder...?
This Reality TV Show gives addicts an ultimatum: go to rehab or risk losing contact with your family.
What is Intervention?
Freud prescribed this drug for the treatment of alcoholism.
What is cocaine?
Treatment programs that feature a non-spiritual approach are called _________ programs.
What is "Secular"?
The difference between an Opiate and an Opioid.
An opioid is a substance (molecule) that is synthetic or partly synthetic (oxycontin, hydrocodone, fentanyl)
The poppy plant creates opiates. Opiates are labeled “natural”, because nature creates the active ingredient. (opium, morphine and codeine)
Characterized by persistently low mood, a persistent feeling of sadness or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.
What is Clinical Depression?
This gangster classic follows Ray Liotta as he joins the mob, gets caught up in cocaine and eventually goes into Witness Protection.
What is Goodfellas?
A mix of shredded plant material and laboratory-made chemicals with mind-altering effects like hallucinations, confusion and paranoia, often called “synthetic marijuana” .
What is Spice?
This treatment model makes you drink til you puke.
What is Aversion Therapy?
The expression for having a drink when you're hung over.
What is "Hair of the dog"?
A mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
This dark comedy TV show follows the poor and dysfunctional Gallagher family as they navigate relationships, poverty, and alcoholism issues together.
What is "Shameless"?
This “flesh eating” or “flesh rotting” opioid derivative is often cut with gasoline, paint thinner, or hydrochloric acid.
What is Krokodil (or Desomorphine)?
This treatment model has Buddhist roots.
What is Refuge Recovery?
What are the fundamental factors for long-term recovery?
Willingness to change, mental health treatment, acceptance, social and community support, self-care, finding purpose, recovery support programs, letting go of control, connecting with a higher power, etc.
A mental illness that brings severe high and low moods and changes in sleep, energy, thinking, and behavior.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Movie about a teenager who goes from successful basketball player to homeless heroin addict, ends up in prison and a mental asylum, but eventually puts his life back together.
What is "The Basketball Diaries"?
Purified form of ethyl alcohol, made from the distillation of fermented grain, raises blood alcohol to dangerous levels, leading to alcohol poisoning and even death.
What is Grain Alcohol? (brand name Everclear)
Hundreds of years before AA, THEY were finding recovery in Sobriety Circles.
Who are the Native Americans?
What do the following stand for?
IOP, SLE, PHP and FUBAR?
What are
"Intensive Outpatient Program"
"Sober Living Environment"
"Partial Hospitalization Program"
"F-ed Up Beyond All Recognition"
A mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Stars Michael Keaton as a real estate agent with a cocaine addiction who goes into treatment to avoid the police, but eventually stays to save his own life.
What is "Clean and Sober"?
There is no worm at the bottom of a Tequila bottle. But there is one at the bottom of this bottle...
What is Mezcal?
He founded NA in 1953
Who is Jimmy Kinnon?
How could over commitment lead to relapse?
This can lead to feeling overloaded and under pressure.
increased stress that promotes escapism
encourages grandiosity and wishful thinking in high risk situations
recovery is not a race- it can set unrealistic expectations for recovery.