People who abuse drugs are weak-willed. They could control their craving for drugs if they tried. True or False?
False
A chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
Addiction
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
Run, Hide, Fight are the responses for which code?
Code Silver: Armed Shooter
Alcohol lowers or increases your body's temperature?
Lowers
Vomiting, blacking out, passing out, cold/clammy skin, slurring, lack of muscle coordination.
Signs of an alcohol overdose.
Frameworks, Safeguards, and Transitions
Exploring an individuals health history and current physical condition is a tenet of which ASAM dimension?
Dimension 2: Biomedical Conditions and Complications
This code is called for non-emergency medical concerns such as patient vomiting (anywhere other than bathroom), patient fall without loss of consciousness, or any bodily fluids mishap.
Code Purple: Rapid Response
The average age individuals experiment with drugs
13
Exploring an individuals unique relationship with relapse or continued use or problems is an aspect of which ASAM dimension?
Dimension 5: Relapse, Continued Use, or Continued Potential Problem
____% of all suicides involve alcohol and/or drugs.
50%
Drugs that slow down the functions of the central nervous system and make the user less aware of the environment. Some examples include alcohol, sleeping pills (sedative hypnotics), and pain killers (narcotic analgesics).
Depressants
One of the most effective means of treatment for substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders. A therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Acceptance, hope, faith, courage, honesty, patience, humility, willingness, brotherly love, integrity, self-discipline, and service
12 Spiritual Principles of Recovery
The existence of both a mental health disorder and substance use disorder
Dual diagnosis/Co-occurring disorder
Most drugs affect the brain's ________ causing euphoria as well as flooding it with the chemical messenger dopamine.
Reward circuit