Triggers, Cravings and Avoiding Relapse
People, places, and things associated with substance use.
What are external triggers?
People, places, situations, and feelings that have become associated with alcohol and other drug use.
What are triggers?
Withdrawal symptoms of cravings, anxiety, headaches, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, drowsiness, and irritability are caused by what substance?
What is tobacco?
Reaching outside of oneself for help and guidance to make personal, positive changes.
What is spirituality?
A mother who is incarcerated and a child who later becomes incarcerated is what type of trauma?
What is intergenerational trauma?
Casino sounds, like the slot machine, is what type of trigger?
What is sensory trigger?
Addiction is a ________. It is not a single event or decision, but many small steps and decisions.
What is process?
More than 480,000 people in the United States die each year from _________, which is more than deaths from AIDS, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, suicide, car crashes, and fires combined.
What is cigarettes?
_______ is one way that many people get in touch with their Higher Power. This can be done through speaking in your head silently, aloud by yourself, or with a group of other people.
What is praying?
A pregnant woman with chaotic or unpredictable environment/lifestyle factors can cause what type of trauma?
What is in-utero trauma?
4 steps from trigger to relapse IN ORDER.
(1) Trigger
(2) Thought
(3) Craving
(4) Use/Relapse
Instead of planning and working for a goal, you sometimes have fantasies of being rescued or of escaping and starting over. This is what type of thinking?
What is wishful thinking?
Alcohol supplies calories needed for energy but provides no ___________.
What is nutrition/vitamins?
_______ begins with admitting that drinking alcohol and using other drugs have made your life unmanageable, that things have gotten out of control.
(hint: HOW)
What is honesty?
Adverse Childhood Experiences include abuse, neglect, and _________ ____________.
What is household dysfunction?
4 steps of dealing with triggers IN ORDER.
(1) Identifying them
(2) Avoiding them
(3) Interrupting them
(4) Talking about them
The decision to relapse is usually made ______ somebody actually has a drink or uses a drug.
What is before?
A birth defect caused by alcohol use in pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)?
Ability to consider new ideas, even opposing points of view, and realizing that it is okay not to have all of the answers.
(hint: HOW)
What is open-minded?
Fight, flight, or freeze response is an automatic response controlled by the __________ nervous system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Feelings that people have before or during substance use.
What are internal triggers?
One of the most common warning signs of upcoming relapse is ________________________ ?
(hint: a behavior or lack of behavior)
What is stopped participation in/lack of recovery-oriented activities.
4 stages of alcoholism IN ORDER.
(1) Tolerance
(2) Memory lapse (brownouts/blackouts)
(3) Loss of ability to control
(4) Binges
Being committed to do whatever is needed to recover, no matter how difficult.
(hint: HOW)
What is willingness?
Recognizing and controlling your behavior, emotions, and thoughts in the pursuit of long-term goals. Ability to manage disruptive emotions and impulses.
What is self-regulation?