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?
An alcoholic who has never done any other drugs may attend open meetings, but may not join NA as NA is open to drug addicts only.
What is False ?
People, places and things
when a person stops maintaining his or her goal of reducing or avoiding use of alcohol or other drugs and returns to previous levels of use
What is relapse?
These separate people and help distinguish your unique identity from that of another person // It's easy often very easy for these to become too loose or too rigid.
What are boundaries?
It is the tendency of addicted individuals to refute their association with their drinking or drug use in spite of evidence to the contrary.
What is denial?
Children of parents with alcohol and drug problems are more likely than their peers to abuse drugs and alcohol as they grow older.
What is True? Some scientists suggest that a genetic predisposition toward substance abuse may run in families.
Some high-risk situations to avoid are to not let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired. What can help you remember these circumstances?
What is H.A.L.T.?
Three stages of relapse
A boundary that is too flexible that will lead to being hurt and used by others and ourselves.
What is a permeable boundary?
This is the medical process focused on treating the physical effects of withdrawal from substance use and comfortably achieving metabolic stabilization; a prelude to longer-term treatment and recovery.
What is detox?
With determination, a person addicted to drugs or alcohol can ‘kick the habit” on his or her own.
What is False? Most people with addictions require the help of a professional and the support of friends to “kick the habit.”
Skills necessary in resolving a problem in a healthy and assertive way.
What are conflict resolution skills?
True or false: Relapse is sudden and unpredictable.
What is false?
This is an excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one who requires support on account of an illness or addiction.
What is Co-dependence?
This combines behavioral therapy and medications to treat substance use disorders.
What is medically assisted treatment (MAT)?
An individual who has only a few drinks each week cannot be an alcoholic.
What is false? People who depend on alcohol, or whose ability to function in daily life is impaired by alcoholism, suffer from the disease. Some people could consume only a handful of drinks in a given week, and
The ability to bounce back from adversity and perhaps even become happier, smarter, stronger, and healthier than you were before.
What is resilience?
List five warning signs of relapse
A healthy boundary where the individual is in control of what comes in and what goes out.
What is a semi-permeable boundary?
A specific stimulus that sets off a memory or flashback, transporting the individual back to a feeling, experience, or event which may increase susceptibility to psychological or physical symptom recurrence and reinstatement of substance use disorder ; often paired with the idea of "urges and cravings"
What are triggers?
Studies show that substances abuse rates decline as people age above 35-years-old.
What is false? Drug abuse is prevalent among every age group.
Our brains learn by __________ and __________.
What are repetition and reward?
A written plan of action that dictates what a client will do in stressful situations, coping skills, supports and other motivational contents to remind a client why they choose to be in recovery.
What is a written relapse prevention plan?
A boundary that used to be helpful but is no longer useful and is now causing issues // also known as being a boundary that is too strong and causing issues in a person's life due to lack of flexibility.
What is a barrier?