Recovery
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?
Alcohol Withdrawal can lead to :
A:Seizures
B. Hallucinations
C. Death
D: all the above
D-all the above
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this. (What is often taught in the subject of boundaries)
What is assertiveness?
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gambler's Anonymous are all examples of programs with this type of format that can support you in recovery.
What are 12-Step Fellowships?
When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than either drug alone.
What drug is this?
What is cocaine? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
Abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs is costly to the United States, exacting this amount annually in costs related to crime, lost work productivity and healthcare.
A. One billion
B. 45 million
c. 600 billion
D. 6.7 billion
What is 600 Billion?
This recovery network was established in the 1940s and started in California. It asserts that its therapeutic value for aiding people in recovery is that the program is based on people helping people.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
What is medications used to minimize cravings and withdrawal (what is the acronym)
What is MAT
This drug slows both heart rate and respiration, which can be fatal when mixed with alcohol.
What are Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Anxiolytics as well as opiates? (Heroin, oxycontin, percocet, morphine, Xanax, Librium, Valium, Benadryl, Ambien) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse) (benzos and or opiates)
Tachycardia, Drowsiness, diaphoresis are fairly common withdrawal symptoms for alcohol?
true or false?
true
The health concerns of a person seeking treatment is often marked by
A. Anxiety
B. Palpitations
c. Speech difficulty
D. A, B, and C
E. Legal problems
F. all the above
D- A, B, and C- (Legal issues are not a health concern)
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
True or false:
Opioid withdrawal can Typically lead to death
false
When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior, but more research is needed.
What are Anabolic Steroids? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating. (Hint-it is a very common substance)
What is caffeine?
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction, that is no fault of their own
Who are newborn babies?
Why is family encouraged to be involved with alcohol and drug treatment programming?
A. Addiction involves the entire family
b. Family members are always the most successful in providing support
c. Family can disclose secrets that the addict/alcoholic is hiding to treatment team members
A. Addiction involves the entire family
Psychologist Milton Erickson asked an alcohol user struggling with sobriety to contemplate this plant, which subsequently caused the alcohol user to gain and maintain his sobriety.
What is a cactus? "could go for three years without water and not die"
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects, and may result in dangerously low blood pressure.
What is an inhalant? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
What emergency medication is available for opioid overdoses
What is narcan?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease (like cardiac and high blood pressure issues), disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Were entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character
A. Step 7
B. Step 6
C. Step 3
D. Step 11
B Step 6