12 Steps
This principle, found in Step 1, means admitting we can’t control our addiction alone.
Honesty
To reduce relapse risk, people in recovery are encouraged to avoid these, which include people, place, and things associated with past substance use.
Triggers
This brain chemical, associated with pleasure and reward, is heavily involved in addiction.
Dopamine
This mood disorder, marked by long periods of sadness and loss of interest, commonly co-occurs with addiction.
Depression
This popular talk therapy helps people recognize and challenge distorted thinking that leads to relapse.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
In this step, we took a fearless and searching moral inventory of ourselves.
Step Four
This is the term for strategies used to manage or avoid high-risk situations.
Triggers
Overtime, the brain‘s reward system becomes less responsive to natural rewards, a process known as this.
Tolerance
This is the term for persistent, strong, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity.
Phobia
Often used in early recovery, this structured support format involves sharing in a safe space with peers, led by a facilitator.
Group Therapy or Groups
In Step 8, we made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to do this…
Willing to make amends
HALT is a common acronym in relapse prevention, what does it for?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired
This part of your brain is significantly impacted by chronic substance and alcohol use as it has a prominent role in decision making.
Prefrontal Cortex
People with mental health disorders, like anxiety or depression, typically use substances or alcohol to mask their ongoing symptoms, this is called.
Self-medicating
This therapeutic approach teaches people to be present in the moment without judgement and is usually beneficial for managing cravings and anxiety.
Mindfulness or Mindfulness-based Therapy
This popular slogan reminds us to focus on staying sober for the current day, rather than worrying about the future or dwelling on the past.
One Day at A Time
These three warning signs of relapse—known as the Three Stages — happen emotionally, mentally, and finally, this way.
Physical Relapse
This part of your brain is significantly impacted by chronic substance and alcohol use as it has a prominent role in decision making.
Prefrontal Cortex
These types of obsessive thought are unwanted, reptitive, and often disturbing or irrational.
Intrusive Thoughts
This therapy focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness - often used in dual diagnosis.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
In what year was Alcoholic Anonymous founded
1935
This mindfulness technique is used to cope with craving or impulses by observing them without acting on them.
Urge surfing
When we stop using substances or alcohol and engage in recovery activities, the brain adapts and forms new neural pathways through this process.
Neuroplasticity
Untreated ADHD in adults is linked to a higher risk of substance abuse due to problems with this executive brain function.
Impulse Control
This form of therapy is beneficial in resolving ambivalence, which is the inner conflict between wanting to change and wanting to stay the same.
Motivational Interviewing