Peer Recovery
The core of the A.A. program of personal recovery from alcoholism.
What are the 12-steps?
Reoccurring dreams that occur during the recovery process from substance use disorder that concern depictions of substance use, often vivid in nature, and frequently involving a relapse scenario.
What is a drug dream?
a primary, chronic, neurobiologic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestation. Addiction is characterized by behaviors that include: Impaired control over drug use, Compulsive use, Continued use despite harm, Cravings
What is Addiction?
The specific efforts, both behavioral & psychological, utilized to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressful events.
What is Coping Skills?
Brand names include: Bunavail, Buprenex, Butrans, Subutex, Suboxone, and Zubsolv.
What is Buprenorphine?
A ________ meeting is for people coping with addiction to alcohol who are seeking recovery would be intended for attendance only by people coping with addiction to alcohol who are seeking recovery.
What is a closed meeting?
The medical process focused on treating the physical effects of withdrawal from substance use and comfortably achieving metabolic stabilization;
What is Detoxing?
A person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
What is Mental Health?
A prevalent type of talk therapy (psychotherapy) that involves working with a professional to increase awareness of inaccurate or negative thinking and behavior and to learn to implement new coping strategies.
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT)
A type of medication and class of compounds that are central nervous system depressants causing sedation and sleep. These medications have been replaced largely by benzodiazepines because they are less toxic and benzodiazepines have lower potential for overdose risk.
What is a Barbiturate?
International fellowship for individuals with problematic drinking.
What is AA?
A powerful & strong psychological desire to consume a substance or engage in an activity; a symptom of the abnormal brain adaptions (neuroadaptations) that result from addiction. The brain becomes accustomed to the presence of a substance, which when absent, produces a manifest psychological desire to obtain and consume it.
What are Cravings?
Experiencing two or more health challenges at the same time or one after another, such as mental health and addiction.
What is a co-occurring disorder?
An empirically supported psychosocial treatment for borderline personality disorder, that utilizes a skills-based approach to teach mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. Though designed to treat borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is increasingly being used in the context of substance use disorder treatment.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
Medications directly obtainable in a pharmacy by a consumer without a prescription from a healthcare provider.
What are over the counter medications?
The first year of remission from a substance use disorder.
What is Early Recovery?
A state of psychological tension in which one is pulled in two different directions: to stay the same or to make changes.
What is Ambivalence?
A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger. A time when a difficult or important decision must be made.
What is a crisis?
Admission to a hospital or facility for treatment that requires at least one overnight stay and typically requires medical management.
What is inpatient treatment?
A synthetic opioid medication used to reduce withdrawal and post-acute withdrawal symptoms and is often used as a mid- to long-term opioid use disorder medication for helping stabilize and facilitate recovery among those suffering from opioid use disorders.
What is Methadone?
A supreme deity or being, a malleable conception of God, or a “power greater than ourselves,” popularized by the recovery mutual-help organization, Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is Higher Power?
A process of change through which individuals
improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to
reach their full potential.
What is recovery?
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience; a physical or psychological injury; the emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury which sometimes leads to long-term effects.
A time limited, intensive, non-residential clinical treatment that often involves participation in several hours of clinical services several days per week.
What is Intensive Outpatient (IOP) or Partial Hospitalization (PHP)?
BONUS QUESTION:
An intense euphoric feeling experienced by some individuals in early recovery from substance use disorder in which the patient experiences highly positive and optimistic sentiments.
What is Pink Cloud?