The amount of time during which an individual experiences consistent physical symptoms (known as acute withdrawal) can last up to ____ weeks.
What is 2 (weeks)?
100
The capacity to tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
What is patience (or acceptance)?
100
A colorless volatile flammable liquid, C^2 H^5 O H.
What is Alcohol?
100
An organization downstairs that provides access to community resources.
What is CVAB?
200
A feeling of nervousness or worry.
What is anxiety?
200
After acute withdrawal comes this stage of recovery during which symptoms become increasingly emotional and less physical.
What is post acute withdrawal (paws)?
200
A reliable group of people to call when dealing with cravings, triggers, or uncomfortable symptoms.
What is a sober support group?
200
This category of drug in moderate doses relieves pain and causes a sense of drowsiness but side effects of abuse include a sense of euphoria, respiratory depression, paranoia, and constipation.
What are opiates?
200
An anonymous meeting that consists of 12 steps to recovery.
What is AA or NA?
300
This is referred to as stress sensitivity, one of the more confusing signs of PAWS to deal with.
What is when a person has difficulty identifying high or low stress situations, and often "explodes" when stress increases?
300
Post acute withdrawal lasts for approximately ___ years.
What is 2 years?
300
Personal individual health maintenance with the intention of improving or restoring well-being.
What is self-care?
300
A tall annual dioecious plant native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
What is cannabis?
300
The danger of detoxing from alcohol or benzodiazepines without medical assistance.
What is death?
400
These are three signs of coordination problems.
What are dizziness, trouble with balance, difficulty with hand and eye coordination, and slow reflexes, including being "clumsy?"
400
A PAWS episode lasts for approximately this long.
What is a few days?
400
The practice of becoming free from tension and anxiety.
What is relaxation?
400
A white crystalline alkaloid, C^17 H^21 NO^4.
What is cocaine?
400
The goal of creating a strategy to deal with cravings and triggers.
What is relapse prevention?
500
The disruption of a normal bodily function measured in circadian rhythms.
What is disturbed sleep?
500
The times at which signs of PAWS typically occur, without apparent outside stressors.
What are regular "moon cycles," often around 30, 60, 90, 120, and 180 days, as well as the one and two year marks of sobriety?
500
To intentionally orient oneself with their immediate surroundings to distract the mind from negative thoughts.
What is grounding?
500
A class of organic compounds used as tranquilizers, from which withdrawal can be fatal.
What are benzodiazepines?
500
The four "warning signs" of someone being more at risk for giving in to cravings to use.