Addiction
Recovery
Relapse
Vocabulary
Intervention
100

This is the first stage of addiction

What is experimentation/recreational use?

100

The type of treatment where a person lives in a recovery facility

What is residential treatment?

100

A person, place, emotion, or situation that can result in psychological relapse followed by physical relapse

What is a trigger?

100

A behavioral disorder characterized by repeated, compulsive seeking behavior despite adverse consequences

What is addiction?

100

The name of the activity where friends/family get together to persuade a person to seek treatment

What is an organized intervention?

200

If a substance problem goes untreated, this could occur either by accident or intentionally

What is an overdose?

200

A term used to describe the lowest point in a person's life right before seeking treatment

What is rock bottom?

200

The medication used to completely or partially reverse an opioid overdose

What is Narcan (Naloxone)?

200
Returning to a previous substance using lifestyle and/or behaviors

What is a relapse?

200

The first step of the intervention process

Possible answers: What is gathering an intervention team? What is a confrontation? 

300

The use of marijuana before this age may impact brain development

What is 25 years of age?

300

The cluster of ongoing withdrawal symptoms that can occur after acute withdrawals are over

What is PAWS? (post acute withdrawal syndrome)

300

The name used to describe one episode of use after a period of sobriety, but NOT a full return to the prior lifestyle of using

What is a lapse or slip?

300

The term used to describe something that occurs after experiencing a trigger

What is a craving?

300

The name of a treatment setting that is used instead of incarceration

Possible answers: What is drug court? What is family treatment court? What is rehab?

400
The act of refraining from using any mind, mood, or body altering substance, legally or illegally

What is abstinence?

400

A professional evaluation of a persons substance use history, current health status, and physical and mental condition

What is a substance use assessment or evaluation?

400

Name one of the most common reasons for relapse?

Possible answers: What is stress? What is negative emotions (interpersonal problems)? What is lack of social support? 

400

A common reaction from someone with a substance use disorder when confronted about their behaviors

What is denial?

400

Describe the type of treatment where a person does multiple counseling sessions a week and does NOT live at a treatment facility

What is IOP (intensive outpatient treatment)?

500

Name a behavior that could occur in the dependency stage of addiction

Possible answers: loss of control, tolerance, overdose, physical and mental exhaustion, loss of priorities

500

Referring to someone who has been diagnosed with more than one disorder

What is a dual diagnosis?

500

The three stages of relapse

What is emotional, mental, and physical?

500

The term used to describe the need to increase the amount and/or frequency of a substance to get the same effect as before

What is tolerance?

500

When a person used medications to help them remain abstinent from their substance of choice

What is MAT or medication assisted treatment?