Wild Card
What is Assertiveness?
A primary emotion that most addicts feel prior to picking up drugs and alcohol.
What is fear?
The coexistence of a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder.
what is dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorders
This celebrity has thanked Burger King for helping him overcome his problems with addiction
Who is Robert Downey Jr.
This country is known as "incarceration nation" and favors a punishment model when it comes to treatment for substance use.
What is the United States?
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?
This spiritual principle is necessary when surrendering to a higher power
What is faith?
These are common mental health disorders that can occur with addiction.
What is depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and generalized anxiety disorder.
This actress made headlines in 1989 by going to rehab at the age of 13.
Who is Drew Barrymore.
The Canadian government warns its travelers that this country's drug laws are some of the toughest laws in the world.
This drug was an approved anesthetic in humans and was discontinued in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational when recovering from its anesthetic effects.
what is PCP?
In active addiction addicts often lose this.
What are family and friends?
Plays a role in co-occurring disorders.
What is Bio-Psycho-Social?
Bio: genetic risk factors
Psycho: family environment, life stress, stressful experiences
Social: coping skills
This celebrity is an outspoken advocate for drug misuse awareness and changes in opiate policy.
Who is Jamie Lee Curtis?
In this country, rehabilitation from illicit substances is considered forced labor and near starvation.
What is Vietnam?
When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior?
What are Anabolic Steroids?
Happy, Joyous, and ____________.
What is free?
The most common treatment for co-occurring disorders.
What is an integrated treatment model? Counseling, support meetings, psychiatry, and psychoeducation on the interaction between the two disorders.
This country singers was in a cycle of recovery and relapse by the time he had his first number one hit. He, also, credits his wife with getting him into successful treatment.
Who is Keith Urban?
In this country, there are established clinics that allow safe opioid use supervised by a doctor and paired with mental health counseling.
What is Switzerland?
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"
We must do this for ourselves before we can do this for others?
What is forgive?
Problems that can occur with co-occurring disorders.
What are:
use of alcohol or other drugs to reduce problems or pain associated with mental health issues
a worsening mental health disorder
a worsening substance use disorder
difficulty getting treatment for both disorders, or difficulty benefiting from treatment
difficulty finding supportive professionals or peers who understand both disorders
This celebrity built the Crossroads Centre for alcohol and drug treatment on the Caribbean Island of Antigua in 1998 after being in addiction for years.
Who is Eric Clapton?
This country removed ideological questions about imprisoning adults who choose to consume drugs, respected constitutional rights over drug criminalization methods, and ensured that money was used for treatment first and prosecution second.
What is Portugal?