Understanding Addiction
The brain chemical most associated with reward and pleasure.
What is dopamine?
Deep breathing helps activate the _______________ nervous system.
What is parasympathetic?
People, places, and things that increase cravings.
What are triggers?
What is "I"?
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What is a Peer Support Specialist?
This chemical messenger is related to stress and can increase cravings during withdrawal.
What is cortisol?
This emotion tells us, "I am being rejected."
What is shame?
Relapse starts with ________.
What are emotions/the mind?
Relationships in which one person prioritizes the other's needs over their own and feels responsible for the other's emotions.
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What is a CSS (Community Support Specialist)?
What is neuroplasticity?
A skill that involves observation without judgement.
A written plan outlining self care practices and steps to take when urges and cravings arise.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Limits we set to protect our emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing.
What are boundaries?
This PFH employee can support you with processing grief, loss, and trauma, getting and understanding your mental health diagnoses, and learning to manage mental health symptoms.
What is a therapist?
There are three main parts of the brain impacted by addiction. Name one.
What is the prefrontal cortex, reward center (nucleus accumbens), and amygdala?
This distress tolerance skill involves tightening and releasing different muscle groups.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
___________ is a sense of false security that can lead to relapse.
What is complacency?
Listening without interrupting, demonstrating understanding, and asking clarifying questions are all skills of ______ _________.
What is active listening?
This type of recovery program includes NA and AA.
What are 12-step recovery programs?
This term describes the emotional, cognitive, and physical symptoms that can last for weeks to years after withdrawal from substances.
What is post-acute or protracted withdrawal syndrome (PAWS)?
When something causes the body to feel unsafe, this nervous system response is triggered.
What is fight/flight/freeze?
HALT stands for ______ _____ ______ _____.
What is hungry - angry - lonely - tired.
This word describes a healthy style of communication that is neither aggressive, passive, nor passive-aggressive.
What is assertive?
This type of treatment includes medications like naltrexone (Vivitrol) and methadone.
What is MAT (medication-assisted treatment)?