RTC General Info
Inability to stop using drugs and/or alcohol, impairment in ability to control your behavior
What is Addiction?
You see only good or bad, right or wrong. Either you are great – or – you are a loser. There are no in-betweens.
What is Black-and-White Thinking?
Where Vapes go
What is the Bin?
Well, at least I’m not like THAT.
What is Minimization?
I dont need treatment, im not like them.
What is a Control Fallacy?
It is a condition that can occur after a person has stopped using substances, such as alcohol, drugs, or opioids.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS)?
Am I really to blame?
What is Personalizing?
First warning in group consequence
What is a Verbal Warning?
Im using to relax my mind.
What is Avoiding Anxiety?
I only use on the weekends
What is Mental Filtering?
Contains: open self, blind self, hidden self, and unknown.
What is The Johari Window?
Make negative generalizations about yourself or other people
What is Labeling?
Second warning in group consequence
What is losing your next phone time?
Meth was here for me when no one else was.
What is Avoiding Trauma?
Dont panic, its organic!
What is Normalizing?
The inability to consistently control our drinking or
drug use.
What is Powerlessness?
Not taking responsibility for your actions or
lack of actions. It's somebody else's fault
What is Victim Stance?
Third warning sign in group consequence
What is confiscating your phone for 24 hours?
I won’t be able to function and take care of my wife because my back hurts,
What is Avoiding Physical Pain?
You introduced me to the plug, its your fault im an addict now
What is Externalizing Responsibility?
A model consisting of six stages of change that seemed to best represent the process people go through when thinking about, beginning, and trying to maintain new behavior.
What are The Stages of Change?
One exaggerates the consequences when things go wrong, and you imagine that things are or will be disastrous.
What is Catastrophizing?
Kristins Job title at virtue
What is Clinical Director?
Getting high is the only thing to do
What is avoiding boredom?
What is Just World Fallacy?