Addiction Basics
This occurs when a person needs more of a substance to feel the same effect.
Tolerance
Which is a sign of accountability: making excuses or admitting you're wrong?
Admitting you're wrong and taking responsbility
What does HALT stand for?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
This is the practice of setting an invisible, healthy boundary around yourself to protect your emotional and physical sobriety.
Setting Boundaries
This HBO series explored the lives of teens dealing with addiction and recovery amid the challenges of a fractured society.
Euphoria
Negative attitudes, stereotypes, or discrimination toward people with addiction.
Stigma
Why is honesty considered the foundation of recovery?
Honesty breaks denial, builds trust, increases accountability, and allows people to receive help before problems becomes crisis.
What happens to dopamine levels with repeated substance use?
The brain produces less naturally
Why is complacency dangerous?
Complacency leads people to stop practicing recovery behaviors, increasing relapse risk.
In this Netflix series, the protagonist navigates her recovery from addiction while adjusting to life after a stint in prison.
Orange Is The New Black
A relapse prevention plan
Addiction is said to be a fourfold illness, it is a disease of the
Body, Mind, Emotion, and Soul
Name two ways the brain heals during recovery
Improved decision making, balances dopamine levels, better emotional regulation.
Develop a relapse prevention plan
Possible:
Contact a sponsor immediately, attending a meeting today, meet with counselor, increase recovery meetings, resume healthy sleep schedule, exercise daily, practice gratitude, journal triggers, remove access to substances, or ask trusted supports for accountability.
This sitcom centers on a group of friends supporting one another through various life challenges, including addiction and recovery.
Friends
Treating people in recovery with dignity and understanding
Compassion
Why is gratitude protective against relapse?
Gratitude shifts attention from what is missing to what is present, reducing negativity, resentment, self-pity, and hopelessness while strengthening hope and resilience.
Enabling
What are cue-induced cravings?
Environmental cues (people, places, smells, music, emotions, money, stress) that activate memories associated with substance use, producing cravings even years into recovery.
This long-running medical drama often portrays the struggles of healthcare professionals with addiction and their paths to recovery.
ER
What does "Playing the tape forward" mean?
Thinking about the consequences of using before making a decision.
If recovery isn't just about not using, what is it about?
Recovery is about becoming the healthiest version of yourself. It includes:
Emotional growth, healthy relationships, purpose, service, integrity, spiritual growth, physical health, personal responsibility, resilience, living according to your values
A set of long-term, primarily psychological and neurological symptoms that persist for months or even years after stopping drug or alcohol use.
PAWS (post acute withdrawal syndrome)
A client has stopped meetings, isolated, sleeps poorly, and says "I've got this". What kind of relapse is this? Emotional, Physical, Mental Relapse
Emotional Relapse.
Warning signs: Isolation, overconfidence, reduced support, poor self-care, and declining recovery routines.
In this animated series, a character attends a support group for "People Who Can't Stop Talking," addressing themes of addiction in a comedic way.
Bob's Burgers