Recovery 1
Professional specializing in treating mental & emotional disorders is known as...
What is Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Therapist, Counselor?
Substance with a high death rate in the U.S., higher than suicide
What is Fentanyl?
Something greater than themselves in recovery
What is a Higher Power?
Process by which the body rids itself of a drug...
What is Detoxification?
Used to combat heroin/opiate overdose...
What is Narcan or Naloxone?
What does HALT stand for?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired?
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or dispair...
What is Depression?
Feelings of worry, uneasiness, or dread...
What is anxiety?
Stress disorder AFTER traumatic event...
What is PTSD?
Abstain from ALL illicit drugs and alcohol...
What is Sobriety or Clean Time?
Identify an internal trigger.
What is any negative thought or feeling?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a Craving?
One of the most common & effective coping skills a person in early recovery can develop is, this string of behaviors characterized by "a sequence of actions regularly followed"...
What is Routine or Structure?
A realization period for someone suffering from addiction. It’s a stage where they will look outside of themselves, or inside of themselves, and find a newfound perspective or purpose.
What is a Spiritual Awakening?
Name an example of an external relapse trigger.
What are people, places, activities, objects, and situations?
True or False
Relapse prevention starts by saying no just before you are about to use.
False. Saying "no" is the final and most difficult stage to stop, which is why people relapse.
With continued substance abuse the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure..
What is Dopamine?
Most addictive substance
What is Sugar?
"Exposure to ________ is associated with drug addiction in humans and can induce relapse and craving."
What is Stress?
The withdrawal from these two substances can be fatal?
What is Alcohol and Benzos?
Common in early recovery, ____ is the inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things.
What is Anhedonia?
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in...
What is a relapse prevention plan?
1st symptom experienced as a sign you're developing a substance abuse disorder...
What is Increased Tolerance?
What is P. A.W. S.?
What is Post-Acute-Withdrawal-Syndrome?
Emotional or physical limits that people set to create a healthy sense of personal space
What is a Boundary?