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Most common addiction across the nation...
What is Alcohol?
The 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicates that 28.9 million people aged 12 and older, or 10.2% of this population, battled an alcohol use disorder in the past year.
Substance with a high death rate in the U.S., higher than suicide
What is Fentanyl? Deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily illicitly manufactured fentanyl or IMF) decreased from 73,838 overdose deaths reported in 2022, to 72,776 in 2023. Those involving cocaine continued to increase with 29,449 deaths in 2023 (Source: CDC WONDER).
Process by which the body rids itself of a drug...
What is Detoxification or Withdrawal?
Used to combat heroin/opiate overdose...
What is Narcan or Naloxone?
Professional specializing in treating mental & emotional disorders is known as...
What is Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Therapist, Counselor?
True or False?
E-Cigarettes cannot cause cancer.
False.
The first study to link e-cigarette use to cancer was published in October 2019. Researchers found that mice exposed to e-cigarette aerosol for 54 weeks developed carcinomas of the lungs and abnormal bladder cell growth.
What is the first step in AA?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable
What is one of the fastest acting drug?
Nicotine
What is the stage of change where individuals are unaware of or deny the problem?
Precontemplation
A____ is always necessary for an individual to take control of their future sobriety and avoid future relapse.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or dispair...
What is Depression?
Feelings of worry, uneasiness, or dread...
What is Anxiety?
What is the minimum recommended length of time a person should stay in treatment for the best chance of staying sober?
1 year
A return to substance use or addictive behaviors after a period of abstinence.
What is a Relapse?
Violent or aggressive behavior within the home. Is common after coming under the influence
What is Domestic Violence, assault, and theft?
Stress disorder AFTER traumatic event...
What is PTSD?
Abstinence from illicit drugs and alcohol with a commitment to a lifestyle of physical, mental, and emotional well-being and clear-headedness...
What is Sobriety?
Treatment that includes living onsite and receiving group and individual therapies.
What is a Residential Treatment Facility?
They help us manage our emotions related to difficult times to improve emotional health and help us grow as people. Behaviors, attitudes, and approaches are...
What are Healthy Coping skills or tools?
What does the term "dual diagnosis" refer to?
What is the coexistence of a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder?
Drugs in this category include cocaine, amphetamines and caffeine
What are Stimulants?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a Craving?
Can be Internal, Sensory, and/or External. Is the biggest reason for relapse
What are Triggers?
There have been no reports of vape devices exploding and causing injury.
True or False?
False.
The rate of explosions is unknown, but both hospitals and burn centers have reported injuries from e-cigarettes. Defective, poorly manufactured and improperly modified e-cigarettes have been known to explode and cause injury.
What type of triggers are activated by what you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel?
Sensory Triggers
The most important part of your relapse prevention plan is what?
Social network or support
What are some signs of withdrawal from nicotine?
Name at least two.
Anxiety, Fatigues, Sweating, vomiting, depression, seizures, and hallucinations.
How many chemical compounds have been found in e-juice?
At least 60 chemical compounds have been found in e-liquids, and still more are present in the aerosol produced by e-cigarettes
With continued substance use the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure...
What is Dopamine?
Which substance narrows blood vessels and spikes heart rate, and lead to heart attacks with regular use?
Nicotine
Our brain learns by _________ and _________
What is Repetition and reward
1st symptom experienced as a sign you're developing a substance abuse disorder...
Increased tolerance
The six most addictive drugs rated are
What is Nicotine, Heroin, Cocaine, Alcohol, Fentanyl, Methamphetamine
"Exposure to ________ is associated with drug addiction in humans and can induce relapse and craving."
Stress
What is the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect called? (In other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same "high".)
Tolerance
In process group, the most important rule is
What is confidentiality?
If you are on MAT services, are you still considered clean?
Yes
A way to benefit from group is to
What is participate?
What is one substance that could cause death during withdrawal?
Alcohol
What can be ruined by substance use because drugs take away your drive to accomplish things?
Goals
What substance can make your brain up to three weeks to recover to full function after using this only one time?
What stage of change when individuals sustain their changes for at least 6 months? As well as develop strategies to prevent relapse and integrate their new habits into their daily life?
Maintenance
The goal is P____ not P____.
What is Progress not Perfection?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examines of this useful tool in recovery
What is a coping tool?
An automatic body reaction in which the body prepares a response to confront or escape from a perceived or real threat
What is "fight or flight?"
Most E-cigarettes and other vaping devices are not approved by the ____________________.
(Must say full name)
U.S Food and Drug Administration, or FDA.
Until very recently, manufacturers and distributors of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices were not bound by standards of safety set by the FDA for smoked tobacco products. Despite the new regulations, e-cigarette manufacturers are free to project a risk-free image in their marketing, and offer enticing, candy-like flavors that appeal to children, adolescents and young adults.
This type of exercise increases neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins, which improve mood, reduce pain, and enhance feelings of well-being.
What is aerobic exercise?
One of the most common & effective coping skills a person in early recovery can develop is, this string of behaviors characterized by "a sequence of actions regularly followed"...
Routine or structure
What is the name of the vital organ that sits under the ribcage that is responsible for filtering out toxins and is the most damaged by long-term alcohol and acetaminophen abuse?
Liver