Understanding Addiction
Addiction is a _______ disease.
What is chronic?
Deep breathing helps activate the _______________ nervous system.
What is parasympathetic?
Relapse starts with ________.
What are emotions/the mind?
What is "I"?
This category includes NA and AA.
What are 12-step recovery programs?
The brain chemical most associated with reward and pleasure.
What is dopamine?
This emotion tells us, "I am being rejected."
What is shame?
HALT stands for ______ _____ ______ _____.
What is hungry - angry - lonely - tired.
Relationships in which one person prioritizes the other's needs over their own and feels responsible for the other's emotions.
This PFH employee can support you with accessing government resources, getting a job, and accessing transportation.
What is a CSS (Community Support Specialist)?
This chemical messenger is related to stress and can increase cravings during withdrawal.
What is cortisol?
A skill that involves observation without judgement.
People, places, and things that increase cravings.
What are triggers?
Limits we set to protect our emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing.
What are boundaries?
This PFH employee can support you with connecting to recovery communities, obtaining sober living, and developing skills and tools to support your recovery?
What is a Peer Support Specialist?
What is neuroplasticity?
This distress tolerance skill involves tightening and releasing different muscle groups.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
A written plan outlining self care practices and steps to take when urges and cravings arise.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Listening without interrupting, demonstrating understanding, and asking clarifying questions are all skills of ______ _________.
What is active listening?
The term ____ ____ originated in the 1950s and was used to describe a movement towards empowering individuals to take charge of their own health.
What is self care?
There are three main parts of the brain impacted by addiction. Name one.
What is the prefrontal cortex, reward center (nucleus accumbens), and amygdala?
When something causes the body to feel unsafe, this nervous system response is triggered.
What is fight/flight/freeze?
Identifying your personal reasons for working on your recovery builds ________ __________.
What is internal motivation?
This term describes relationships where both people take responsibility for only their own feelings and actions.
What is interdependence?
This type of treatment includes medications like naltrexone (Vivitrol) and methadone.
What is MAT (medication-assisted treatment)?