Categories of Substances
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This substance may increase your appetite.
Chronic use can lead to severe mental illness including schizophrenia, or other significant cognitive impairments.
What is Cannabis
This widely unfounded theory of addiction suggests people who use substances lack willpower or are morally flawed.
What is the Moral Theory
This dashing beast is one of 9 children and has a red nose.
Who is Rudolph
This term is also referred to as the 'addiction to a person or relationship"
What is Co-dependencey
this is the "ONLY" thing you have to change in recovery
Everything
This category of substances increases alertness and results in staying awake for long periods of time.
example: coffee
What are Stimulants
This term refers to the negative attitudes or discrimination against someone based on a distinguishing characteristic. This often includes people who use substances or struggle with mental health.
What is Stigma.
This technique which has phrases such as 'even though I am... I will..' has been show to decrease anxiety and cravings.
What is tapping
Healthy relationships are based on these aspects
What is respect, good communication, trust, honesty, equality
This is a short period of time in which a person has a 'one time' set back in their recovery
What is a lapse
This type of substance slows your central nervous system and produce a feeling of calm or drowsiness.
example: alcohol
What is a depressant
reluctant to seek help, delay of treatment, social rejection, isolation, avoidance, decreased mental health, increased substance use, poor quality of life, increase shame, guilt, poor self-esteem, self worth, creates a mistrust.
This is the color of a giraffe's tongue
black/blue
These are commonly referred to as the types of boundaries
Physical, Intellectual Emotional, Sexual, Material, Time
This event occurs when a person goes back to the same level of use and stops engaging in practices that support their recovery.
What is a relapse
This category of substances distorts the senses which may result in a loss of reality.
example: magic mushrooms
What are Hallucinogens.
This theory of addiction suggests substance use disorders are the result of complex environmental and biological causes.
What is the Epigenetics or E-Model
This animal has a unique nose print
What is a dog
Joan has very few friends and avoids intimate relationships. She does not ask for help and keeps others at a distance due to fears of rejection.
Joan is displaying this type of boundary
What is a Rigid boundary
what is emotional relapse, mental relapse and physical relapse
This category of substances created a crisis
What are opiates
This model/theory is currently the mostly widely accepted view and suggests substances create strong neural pathways in the brain due to high amounts of dopamine
What is the Neurobiology Model
Co-dependent behavior can manifest in the following 8 ways
People-pleasing, low self-esteem, unhealthy boundaries, reactivity, caretaking, control, ineffective communication, obsessions, dependency, denial, problems with intimacy, painful emotions.
T.I.P.P is an acronym which stands for
Temperature, Intense Exercise, Paced Breathing, Progressive Muscle Relaxation