Definitions and Terms
Severe problems related to the compulsive and habitual use of mood-altering substances.
What is Addiction
Commonly used
legal stimulant
What is Caffeine
Feelings that people have before or during drinking alcohol or using other drugs
What are Internal Triggers
Healthy family, and friends who encourage you throughout your recovery.
What is a support system
Should, ought, must, always, and never
Are examples of
What is Irrational Thinking
A psychological defense mechanism that protects people from seeing the harsh realities of their addiction
What is Denial
______ slows the nervous system
What are Depressants
Related to the senses of sight, sound, taste and touch.
What are Sensory Triggers
A healthy diet consists of foods from these food groups. (Name 4)
Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, Protein, and Dairy
Attitudes and ______ have a strong effect on how you understand things that happen to you.
What are Beliefs
A process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less of an effect.
What is Tolerance
People with tolerance to alcohol often use this to stop alcohol withdrawal symptoms
What is marijuana
Can be triggered by internal and external conflict.
What is Stress
Frustrations, Pressures, and ____ are the three types of stressors.
What is conflict
Beliefs that cause stress, anxiety, anger, guilt and depression.
What are irrational/or Self-Defeating beliefs
Naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called Neurons.
What are Neurotransmitters
_______________ cause drowsiness and make it hard to concentrate and remember things.
What is an Opioid
Triggers automatically lead to drug thoughts, which lead to _______ __________, which then leads to relapse.
What are Drug Cravings
The need for food, water, shelter and safety
What are Basic Human Needs
A tool that can help you explore ideas you might not otherwise think about.
What is Brainstorming
Something in the world that makes a demand on a person and requires a person to react in some way.
What is a Stressor
___ drugs distort the way a person feels and thinks, often making his thinking seem crazy.
What is a Psychedelic
A powerful type of trigger that includes the behaviors that occur before, during and after drug use.
What are Rituals
Regular _________ exercise can help decrease depression by enabling your body to release natural antidepressant neurotransmitters.
What is Aerobic
Three simple words that are often considered the hardest to say due to fear of looking weak.
What is “I Need Help”