Get to Steppin'
We admitted we were powerless over our substance use and that our lives have become unmanageable.
What is Step One?
Is the main way that treatment for substance use is provided. They may include six or more clients and one or two counselors. Each session typically has a theme or issue that is discussed.
What is Group Therapy?
Suppresses withdrawal symptoms, blocks the effects of other opioid substances.
What is Buprenorphine/Suboxone/Subutex?
Emotional, Mental, and Physical.
What are the Stages of Relapse?
It involves compulsion, loss of control, continued use despite negative consequences, and other symptoms.
What is Addiction/Substance Use Disorder?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step Four?
This is an opportunity for you to work on emotional or other issues in a more intense and personal way than can be done in group therapy.
What is Individual Therapy?
Makes people feel very ill if they drink alcohol.
What is Antabuse?
Experimentation, Regular Use, Problem Use, Dependence, and Addiction.
What are the Stages of Addiction?
Is the process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect or when the amount of drug needs to be increased to have the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
Made a list of all persons we have harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
What is Step Eight?
Learning your personal signs and symptoms of relapse for your substance use, to create a plan of action to avoid or to limit relapse.
What is Relapse Prevention?
Blocks the euphoric effects of opioids, relieves the cravings and need for opioids.
What is Methadone?
Simple, Intellectualization, Blaming, Minimizing, Rationalizing, Hostility, Diversion.
What are Types of Denial?
Occurs when individuals with physical dependence to alcohol or other drugs cut down or stop taking the drug and experience symptoms that are typically the opposite of the effect produced by the drug.
What is Withdrawal?
Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is Step Five?
These groups help you to increase your hope, become less isolated, and increase your confidence about recovering from substance use.
What are Twelve Step Groups, NA, AA?
Blocks areas of the brain that trigger pleasure when drinking alcohol.
What is Naltrexone?
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.
What are the Stages of Grief?
Occurs when the user's body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug, causing an extreme reaction, such as a seizure or a psychotic episode.
What is Reverse Tolerance?
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
What is Step Eleven?
This can help increase family members' knowledge about substance use and mental health disorders, improve communication among family members, and help family members express their thoughts and feelings?
What is Family Therapy?
Restores normal chemical balance in the brain, prolongs the duration of abstinence, helps reduce anxiety, tremors, and sweating in people who stopped drinking.
What is Acamprosate?
Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, and Relapse
What are the Stages of Change?
Occurs when individuals use both depressants and stimulants together. Individuals who do this tend to consume very large amounts of both drugs due to them counteracting each other.
What is the Upper-Downer Cycle?