Recovery Stages
The first stage of recovery which begins when a person first stops using drugs and alcohol and from lasts one to two weeks. This stage is characterized by physical detoxification and intense cravings for the drug.
What is Withdrawal?
People and places that are associated with drug use and should be avoided.
What is a Trigger?
The part of the Trigger-Thought-Craving-Use sequence where interruption should occur after and the easiest place to interrupt the sequence.
What is Thought?
Concern about weight gain, low energy and fatigue, interpersonal conflict, loss of motivation, insomnia, and paranoia are all types of this, which are common during the protracted abstinence stage of recovery.
What are relapse risk factors?
These begin to occur less often and feel less intense by the adjustment and resolution stage of change.
What are cravings?
The second stage of recovery usually lasts about four weeks. It is characterized by difficulty concentrating, mood swings, intense feelings, and the inability to prioritize. It is sometimes known as the "Honeymoon" or "Pink Cloud" stage.
What is Early Abstinence?
The type of trigger that includes friends, drug dealers and sexual partners.
What is People?
It is a type of thought-stopping that involves imagining actually moving a switch or lever from on to off.
What is visualization?
A very important thing to practice, particularly regular exercise, along with the understanding and support of family members can greatly help a person negotiate difficult phases of recovery.
What is good self-care?
A faulty premise is that people in recovery have no _____ about whether to use drugs or remain in recovery.
What is choice?
This stage (sometimes called the "Wall") lasts about three to four months and is often characterized by apathy, depression, and anhedonia, while continuing to make positive changes and beginning to reap the benefits of recovery.
What is Protracted Abstinence?
The type of trigger that can include a drug dealer's home, bars and clubs, work, or certain street corners.
What are places?
It is worn on the wrist and used in thought-stopping to "snap" your attention away from thoughts of using drugs or alcohol.
What is a rubberband?
Drugs other than those that someone considers to be their primary problem drug or alcohol, which can often lead to relapse.
What are secondary drugs?
This a critical task for the adjustment and resolution stage and in the future. It is necessary to sustain ongoing abstinence and sobriety and it will look different for everyone when it is optimal.
What is balance?
A way recovering people can learn to interrupt the trigger-thought-craving-use sequence.
What is Thought Stopping?
The type of trigger that includes drug paraphernalia, money, music associated with use, and the use of another drug.
What are things?
A process that can relieve feelings of hollowness and heaviness by breathing in deeply and slowly breathing out, preparing the process three times, and focusing on the body.
What is relaxation?
The part of the human brain responsible for rational decision-making, which becomes less active when using substances.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Emerging or reemerging emotional or relationship issues may cause this and a desire to use drugs or alcohol.
What is distress?
The stage where a person is well past physical withdrawal and often feels very accomplished, which can result I a false sense that life can return to pretreatment normal. To remain successful in this stage requires a new definition of "normal."
What is Adjustment and Resolution?
Type of trigger that includes anxiety, depression, and boredom.
What are emotional states?
Tasks that require full concentration and can be used when thought-stopping works, but the thoughts frequently keep coming back, such as exercise, 12-step meetings, meditation or prayer, or eating or sleeping.
What are Non-trigger activities?
A gradual letting go of the structure, including treatment activities and mutual help groups, and other behavioral changes that a person has worked hard to achieve.
What is a behavioral drift?
Occur when the addicted brain attempts to provide a seemingly rational reason for behavior that moves a person in recovery closer to a slip.
What is a relapse justification?