Acronyms
P.T.S.D
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The name of the medication used to rapidly reverse overdose
What is Narcan?
What are people, places, and things?
Relapse Triggers.
Process by which the body rids itself of drugs.
What is detox
Which step do we admit that we are powerless and our lives are unmanageable?
Step one.
P.A.W.S
Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
What is the main cause of Overdose Deaths?
Opioids or fentanyl.
The increase needed of a substance to get the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
Abstaining from all illicit drugs and alcohol.
What is abstinence or sobriety.
In what step do you make a searching and fearless moral inventory?
Step four.
O.D.A.A.T
One Day at a Time
What month is National Recovery Month?
September
According to NA literature, addicts in the grip of the disease will end up in ______, _______, or ________.
Jails, Institutions, or Death.
A form of treatment where the person lives in a treatment facility?
What is rehab/ residential treatment/ inpatient.
Which step do we Humbly ask him to remove our shortcomings?
Step Seven.
H.A.L.T
Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
Name 2 signs of Overdose.
Pinpoint pupils, loss of consciousness, slow and shallow breathing, Choking or gurgling sounds, limp body, pale, blue, or cold skin.
The ability to recover or "bounce back" quickly from difficulties.
What is resilience?
A non-clinical setting individuals go to after a rehab or incarceration?
Sober-living, half-way house, transitional house, Recovery Point.
What step do we continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it?
Step Ten.
Honesty, Open mindedness, Willingness
What color represents Overdose?
Purple
What are the four forms of communication?
Aggressive, Passive aggressive, Passive, and Assertive.
Refers to non-residential treatment, in which the patient spends structured time in treatment during the day or evening.
What is Outpatient?
In which step do we carry the message to the addicts still suffering?
Step Twelve.