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Vocabulary
Recovery
MISC
Intervention
100
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is Addiction
100
An ___________ is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
What is an intervention
100

The most commonly used depressant

What is alcohol

100

Usually happens right before the user hits ________

What is rock bottom

200
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial
200
A form of treatment wear the patient lives in a recovery facility
What is In patient treatment
200

A group that has the desire to stop using drugs or alcohol.  Ex. NA, AA, CA

12 Step Fellowship

200
trying to protect an addict from facing the consequences of their drug related problems
What is enabling
300
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is Detox
300
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is Detox
300

For the best chance of staying sober, what is the minimum length of time a person should stay in treatment?

what is 90 days

300
People who become overly concerned with another's addiction problem and feel driven to fix or control it
What are codependents
400
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger
400

A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently in a therapeutic session that share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process

What is A support group

400

___________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction

What is Dopamine

400

Who usually participates in an intervention (name at least three)

What is friends, family, co workers, the addict

500
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is Tolerance
500
A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/ addictive behavior
What is relapse
500

5 skills you have learned to overcome cravings and triggers

? 

Sponsor, relapse prevention plan, laughter, service, work, family, hobbies, church, meetings

500

one successful way to make the user aware of their problem is to give them

What is direct examples of their addiction/ an ultimatum