Relapse Prevention
Having a _________ in place can reduce the risk of relapse.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
People, Places, Things that cause people to have thoughts associated with substance abuse.
What are Triggers?
"We admitted we are powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable"
What is Step 1?
PAWS
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms?
________ is a secondary emotion, meaning we display this emotion instead of what we're really feeling.
What is Anger?
___________ is a way in which you can have fun, enjoy being with others, and add healthy activities to your life. They can also help you take your mind off drugs, add structure to your life, and maybe even learn something new.
What are Recreational activities, leisure activities, and/or hobbies?
This increases as you continue to drink/use, requiring you to need more of your substance to feel the same high.
What is Tolerance?
This important person will help you navigate the program and will serve as your go-to person in times of crisis.
What is a Sponsor?
________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is Dopamine?
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or despair.
What is Depression?
2 of the 5 most common challenges of early recovery.
What are: Friends and Associates, Anger and Irritability, Substances in the Home, Boredom and Loneliness, Special Occasions
The combination of physical and mental effects that a person experiences after they stop using or reduce their intake of a substance such as alcohol and prescription or recreational drugs.
What is Withdrawal?
This step involves asking a higher power to remove short-comings.
What is step 7? "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings"
Process that allows you to sit still, clear your mind, and focus on breathing.
Feelings of worry, racing thoughts, and restlessness are signs of this.
What is Anxiety?
The 2 most common types of triggers.
What are Emotional and External Triggers?
A process of change through which an individual achieves abstinence and improved health, wellness, and quality of life.
What is Recovery?
They wrote/founded the 12 steps and 12 traditions (2 names)
Who are Bill W and Dr. Bob?
4-Letter acronym for 4 things that should be avoided in recovery.
What is HALT - Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?
____________is feeling bad about what you've done. _______ is feeling bad about who you are.
What are guilt and shame?
Cognitive behavioral techniques aimed at disrupting negative patterns of thinking that may lead to use.
What are Thought-Stoppers?
A pattern of negative behaviors, beliefs, and feelings that develop in an attempt to control negative relationships.
What is Codependency?
At the core of 12-step recovery.
What is spirituality/Higher Power?
Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance
What are Stages of Change?
People who have substance use disorders as well as mental health disorders are diagnosed as having _________
What is Co-Occurring Disorder/Dual Diagnosis?