Category 1
To justify or support problematic behaviors in a loved one under the guise that you're helping them
What is Enabling?
Willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own
What is Tolerance?
Skills-based, cognitive-behavioral approach that requires patients and their clinicians to identify situations that place the person at greater risk for relapse.
What is Relapse Prevention?
The practice of being held to a certain standard of excellence. It is the idea that an individual is responsible for their actions and, if that individual chooses unfavorable actions, they will face consequences.
What is Accountability?
A strong feeling of wanting something
What are Cravings?
A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person
What is Stigma?
Founded in 1953, describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem
What is NA?
A tendency to believe that some people, ideas, etc., are better than others that usually results in treating some people unfairly
What is a Bias?
A term used to describe the physical and mental symptoms that a person has when they suddenly stop or cut back the use of an addictive substance, such as opiates and opioids, nicotine products, or alcohol.
What is Withdrawal?
The lowest possible level.
What is Rock Bottom?
To cause a strong emotional reaction of fear, shock, anger, or worry in someone, especially because they are made to remember something bad that has happened in the past
What is a Trigger?
To fall or slip back into a former state, practice
What is Relapse?
Peer-based mutual help program for alcoholism, drug abuse and other addictive and dysfunctional behaviors. The steps are guiding principles that outline how to overcome addiction, avoid triggers and live a healthy, productive life.
What are the 12 Steps?
Fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism
What is AA?
Medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose
What is Narcan?
The quality of being dedicated or committed to a task or purpose
What is Dedication?
The desire to act in service of a goal
What is Motivation?
The process of removing toxins — a generic term for something that makes you feel unwell — from your body
What is Detox?
Excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one who requires support on account of an illness or addiction.
What is Codependance?
To deal with and attempt to overcome problems and difficulties
What is coping?
Chronic, relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use despite adverse consequences
What is Addiction?
The state or quality of being sober rather than intoxicated.
What is Sobriety?
Measurable and attainable steps that take you closer to your lifelong goal of sobriety and well-being
What are Goals?
When you take a toxic (poisonous) amount of a drug or medicine
What is an overdose?
Medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and used in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to treat both opioid and alcohol use disorders.
What is Naltrexone?