What does H.O.W stand for?
What is Honesty, Open-minded, and Willing?
This type of life-saving nasal spray or injection can immediately reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone (or Narcan)?
Something greater than themselves in recovery
What is a Higher Power?
Addiction is a disease of this body part...
What is the brain?
What time is curfew?
This is a person met in recovery fellowships who guides a newcomer through the 12 steps.
What is a Sponsor?
What is the "opposite of addiction?"
What is Connection?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a Craving?
What is the process of eliminating a substance from the body, or 'Drying Out'?
What is Detoxing (Detox/Detoxification)?
What does RCL stand for?
What is Recovery Community Leader?
What does MAT stand for?
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment?
This is not an auditory hallucination, rather it’sa positive silent voice in your head guiding you in which way you should go
What is Conscience?
What is P. A.W. S.?
What is Post-Acute-Withdrawal-Syndrome?
The goal is P_________ not P_________.
What is Progress not Perfection?
With continued Substance Use, the brain will stop producing this brain reward chemical that enables pleasure
What is Dopamine?
Maintain limits with self and others, protecting your personal and emotional space, and avoid negativity
What is Setting or Maintaining Boundaries?
What are internal vs. external triggers?
Internal: thoughts, feelings, or emotions that make you want to use
External: anything outside of self that makes you want to use (People, places, and things)
A type of drug that speeds up messages traveling between the brain and body, such as Adderall, Cocaine, and methamphetamine.
What is a stimulant?
When caring shifts into self-sacrifice and your personal identity gets lost in trying to keep someone else happy, you are experiencing this type of unhealthy dynamic.
What is codependency?
In recovery, resentments are replaced with what?
What is Acceptance?
This internal organ is responsible for metabolizing alcohol and suffers the most primary damage from chronic heavy drinking.
What is the Liver?
The term used when an individual has both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder
What is Co-Occurring Disorder/Dual diagnosis?
Unlike substance addictions, these types of addictions involve a compulsion to engage in a rewarding activity—such as gambling, shopping, or gaming—rather than ingesting a chemical.
What is a process addiction (or behavioral addiction)?
In Substance Use Disorder, the intense desire for instant gratification often overrides this type of reward, which refers to a person's ability to wait for a better outcome in the future
What SIX things must be complete before participating in job search?
- Been in the Program for 30 days
- Obtain photo identification & SS Card
- Obtain a sponsor & complete 1st Step Packet & Present
- Complete and submit WRAP Plan
- Obtain & Review Credit Report
- Fill out a request form & be approved by the Care Team