The amount of time during which an individual experiences consistent physical symptoms (known as acute withdrawal) lasts for a few _____.
What is a few weeks?
100
The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
What is patience?
100
A colorless volatile flammable liquid, C^2 H^5 O H.
What is Alcohol?
100
A place to go for short term to get the drugs out of your system.
What is detox?
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
The capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements.
What is flexibility?
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
Easily annoyed or made angry.
What is irritability?
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
This may be necessary of detoxing from alcohol or benzodiazepines.
What is medical monitoring?
400
An inability to focus or pay attention.
What is poor concentration?
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 term used to describe when the symptoms of post acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS) come and go.
What is intermittent PAWS?
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.