Vocabulary
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
The first stage of addiction
What is Prodromal Phase
or experimentation/occasional/recreational use
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
Usually happens right before the user hits ________
What is rock bottom
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
how would you describe the second phase of addiction? give at least two characteristics
mood swings, personality changes, more cravings, high risk behavior and hanging out with other users
A form of treatment wear the patient lives in a recovery facility
What is In patient treatment
trying to protect an addict from facing the consequences of their drug related problems
What is enabling
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. When you are physically dependent on a drug, what happens when you stop?
What is Detox
what is the third phase of addiction called
What is Chronic Phase
or What is increasing dependency
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is Detox
People who become overly concerned with another's addiction problem and feel driven to fix or control it
What are codependents
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger
give two examples of characteristics of the total dependency stage of addiction
needs drug to function normally, loses control in actions, loses intrest in priorities, physically and emotionally exhausted, tolerance to drug, overdose may occur
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
Who usually participates in an intervention (name at least three)
What is friends, family, co workers, the addict
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
If the problem goes un treated accidental or intended _________ may occur
What is overdose
A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/ addictive behavior for a period of time.
What is relapse
one successful way to make the user aware of their problem is to give them
What is direct examples of their addiction/ an ultimatum