FACTS
Addiction is ____________. This means that it gets worse, not better over time. And without treatment, can become chronic and will not go away on its own.
The type of triggers that are the people, places, and things associated with drinking alcohol or using other drugs.
External Triggers
Cocaine and methamphetamine are examples of what type of drug?
Stimulants
Two drugs commonly used to wean patients off opioids.
Suboxone and Methadone
Thinking about drugs can lead to the temptation to use, also called a _______________.
Craving
Uncomfortable feelings, experiences, and physical reactions that occur when people cut down or stop using drugs or alcohol.
Withdrawal Symptoms
The type of triggers that are feelings that people have associated with drug use: emotions / feelings / thoughts
Internal Triggers
These drugs primarily affect the user’s thinking and senses (sight, smell, etc.).
Psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs
A medication commonly used to treat alcohol abuse but can be used for other purposes.
Vivitrol
These types of groups are highly encouraged to people in recovery, especially those in early recovery, and are held in the community. _______ - ________ meetings
Self-Help
The process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect; therefore, greater amounts of the drug must be used to get the same effect.
Tolerance
____ out of 5 people who use heroin began by misusing prescription pain medications.
FOUR
Some users experience reduced blood supply to the heart, also called __________ __________.
Heart attack
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, physical and mental defects in unborn child, can occur in a mother who drinks as a little as how many drinks per day?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
2 drinks per day
Addiction is overpowering. Thus, people need to get help from someone or something outside of themselves, something more powerful than themselves or their addiction. The Twelve Step programs call this a _________ _________.
Higher Power
Addiction is influenced by:
1. Biological factors - (runs in family, genetics)
2. Psychological factors - (mental health)
3. ____________ factors - (people and things we surround ourselves with)
Environmental
This type of withdrawal is the most dangerous type of drug withdrawal.
Sedative-hypnotic / Alcohol
A state of severe confusion. When people continue to use strong stimulants over a long period of time and/or in large doses, they may experience something called ____________.
Delirium
This important brain chemical regulates mood, emotion, learning, memory, sleep, and pain and is negatively affected by drug / alcohol use.
Serotonin
Alcoholics have a higher risk for ________ of the mouth, tongue, back of the throat (pharynx), voice box (larynx), tonsils, and esophagus.
Cancer
People who have tolerance to alcohol often use __________ to stop alcohol withdrawal symptoms.
Marijuana
When it comes to triggers, we first...
1. Identify them
2. AVOID them
3. _________ them (if we have been triggered)
Interrupt
When people use high doses of such powerful stimulants as amphetamines or cocaine over a long period of time, they may have a severe break with reality called a ________________ ______________.
Psychotic break
Most people who experience cravings, which are brought on by triggers, will keep them to themselves and suffer silently. But by keeping silent, they give the cravings time to build up, and that can lead to _____________.
The most widely used drug in the world.
Nicotine