Drugs
A strong addictive illegal stimulant derived from coca or prepared synthetically.
What is Cocaine
An intervention in a case of physical dependence to a drug; the process and experience of a withdrawal syndrome; and any of various treatments for acute drug overdose.
What is Drug detoxification?
Physical and mental symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing intake of a drug.
What is Withdrawal?
also known as a slip: when an individual in recovery reverts to using alcohol or drugs and stops again within a short time.
What is a lapse?
a reminder of a past trauma. This reminder can cause a person to feel overwhelming sadness, anxiety, or panic.
What are triggers
a place where drug users can exchange used hypodermic syringes for new ones.
What is the needle exchange program?
Long term effects of using this substance may cause: Confusion,Hallucinations and Extreme cases of anxiety and paranoia.
What is K2/Spice?
When a person who's trying to stop using drugs can make mistakes, feel bad, and start using again.
What is relapse?
Any inner dialogue you have with yourself that may be limiting your ability to believe in yourself and your own abilities, and to reach your potential.
What is negative self talk.
An opioid drug made from morphine, a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant.
What is Heroin
The use of medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
What is Medicated Assisted Treatment?
Long term effects of using this substance may cause: Headaches, Convulsions and seizures, Heart disease, heart attack, and stroke, Mood problems, Sexual trouble, Lung damage.
What is Cocaine?
Heroin’s synthetic cousin and is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and many times that of heroin.
What is fentanyl?
This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.
What is Justification
A designer drug mixture is composed of dried herbs and spices sprayed with chemicals that, when smoked, create a high similar to THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana.
What is K2/Spice.
a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem".
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
Long term effects of using this substance may cause: insomna, collapsed veins for people who inject the drug, damaged tissue inside the nose for people who sniff or snort it , and infection of the heart lining and valves
What is heroin?
Free street drug samples
What are Testers?
A chemical that is released in the reward areas of the brain.
What is Dopamine?
a treat for narcotic overdose in an emergency situation.
What is Narcan?
Long-term abuse of this substance can cause cancer of the liver, mouth, tongue, throat, esophagus and stomach.
What are Alcohol?
Places where people can share personal stories, express emotions, and be heard in an atmosphere of acceptance, understanding, and encouragement.
What are support groups?