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Antidote reversal agent for narcotics/opioids.
What is Narcan, Naloxone?
A routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.
What are habits?
Intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations.
What is anxiety?
Problematic cues that lead to a craving, which is a strong-often overwhelming-desire to obtain and use your drug of choice.
What are triggers?
The 3 stages of relapse.
What is emotional, mental, and physical?
Following detox from alcohol, opiates, methamphetamine, cocaine, and other addictive substances, people commonly experience a short phase of physical or mental discomfort.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
Practicing can provide reminders of reasons to stick with a recovery plan.
What is gratitude?
A sudden, intense, and overwhelming episode of fear or discomfort, accompanied by shortness of breath and a racing heart.
What are panic attacks?
Analyzing and changing these 3 things will help to manage your urges to reuse.
What are people, places, and things?
A bad way of thinking that makes you believe you will fail, that bad things will happen to you, or that you are not a very good person.
What is stinkin' thinkin?
The chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction.
What is dopamine?
The practice of individuals looking after their own health using the knowledge and information available to them.
What is self-care?
The condition of having a mental illness and a substance use disorder.
What is a dual or co-occurring diagnosis?
A holistic process that determines a person's needs and appropriate setting for mental health/recovery programs.
What is a biopsychosocial assessment?
This type of therapy makes it easier to abstain from tobacco by partially replacing the nicotine.
What is Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) (ex., Patch, nasal spray, gum, lozenge, inhaler)?
Antabuse-disulfiram, campral-acamprosate, and revia-naltrexone are used for this type of addiction maintenance.
What is alcoholism?
Establishing physical, psychological, and emotional limits to protect ourselves from being "used" by others.
What are boundaries?
An emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences.
What is trauma?
Someone who is socially typically spends most of their time at home alone and seldom interacts with others in the community, such as friends or neighbors.
What is isolated?
The 5 stages of change.
What is precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance?
The complex area of the human brain associated with decision-making and impulse control, and is strongly impacted by addiction and intoxication.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
A useful tool to help clients to remember the order in which their needs must be met.
What is HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired)?
A condition in which one displays an over-the-top level of activity or energy, mood, or behavior. This elevation must be a change from one’s usual self and be noticeable by others.
What is Mania or Manic Episodes?
Hate, envy, and hostilities from inside ourselves that are caused by real or imagined wrongs, demonstrating our inability to forgive.
What are resentments?
A mnemonic device to establish criteria for effective goal-setting and objective development.
What are SMART goals?