12 Step's
Someone who can help guide you through the program and more specifically, the 12 steps. This person typically has a good amount of sobriety under their belt and feels comfortable guiding others through difficult times in sobriety.
What is a Sponsor.
Treatment programs 3 days a week used to address addictions, depression, eating disorders, or other dependencies that do not require detoxification or round-the-clock supervision.
What is Intensive Outpatient Program IOP.
Your genetic makeup dictates whether or not you have addiction problems.
What is predisposed.
A practical and transformative approach that incorporates community-driven public health strategies including prevention, risk reduction, and health promotion.
What is Harm Reduction.
A commonly used practice both in and outside of treatment. It encourages individuals to make time in their day to focus on their breathing, relaxing, and energy. Regular practice can help a person stop thinking about the past and instead focus on the future.
What is Meditate.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
What is Step Number 7.
Helps people with SUD. Helps self-determine and develop their personal recovery plan, support multiple paths to recovery, connects people to ongoing services, and record information on each encounter.
What is a Recovery Coach.
Factors such as peer pressure, physical abuse, early exposure to drugs, stress, and parental guidance can greatly affect a person’s likelihood of drug use and addiction.
What is Enviroment.
A feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness. It might cause you to sweat, feel restless and tense, and have a rapid heartbeat. It can be a normal reaction to stress.
What is Anxiety.
Positive statements that can help you to challenge and overcome self-sabotaging and negative thoughts. When you repeat them often, and believe in them, you can start to make positive changes.
What are Affirmations.
We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step Number 2.
A day program in which a patient receives treatment for 6-8 hours each day 5 days a week and then returns home. A great step down from inpatient treatment.
What is a Partial Hospitalization Program PHP.
Chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
What is Addiction.
Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
What is Mental Health.
An emotion similar to appreciation specifically defines this phenomenon as a sense of happiness and thankfulness in response to a fortunate happenstance or tangible gift.
What is Gratitude.
We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is Step Number 10.
Self-Management and Recovery Training.
What is SMART Recovery.
The return to drug and alcohol use after an attempt to stop.
What is Relapse.
The thoughts and behaviors mobilized to manage internal and external stressful situations.
What are Coping Skills.
The feeling of being happy or grateful because of something.
What is Thankfulness.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
What is Step Number 12.
The practice of looking after and prioritizing our own mental and physical well-being.
What is Self-Care.
When an individual is struggling with a mental health issue – such as anxiety disorder, depression, ADHD, or schizophrenia – he or she is more likely to get addicted to drugs and alcohol.
What is Mental Health Disorders.
Regular physical activity can act as a healthy stand-in for addictive substances. That's because exercise and drugs of misuse work on similar parts of your brain.
What is Physical Health.
A feeling or expression of admiration, approval, or gratitude.
What is Appreciation.