Recovery
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
The use of mood-altering drugs that interferes with or has a negative effect on a person's life.
What is substance use disorder?
The dependence of people on one another for a common good, includes open communication, shared decisions, joint action, trust, and concern for one another.
What is interdependence?
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gambler's Anonymous are all examples of programs with this type of format that can support you in recovery.
What are 12-Step Groups?
A primary, chronic, and progressive condition with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development outcome. It involves compulsion, loss of control, continued use despite negative consequences, and other sypmtoms.
What is addiction?
Staying close with them is one of the most common reasons for relapse.
Who are drug-using friends, family or acquaintances?
The fastest addicting drug.
What is nicotine?
These medications are very effective in helping restore brain chemical imbalance caused by intense periods of stress, trauma or extended alcohol/drug use, are not mood-altering and will not jeopardize sobriety but rather strongly support it.
What are antidepressants?
Internal, external, and sensory
What are types of triggers?
A psychological defense mechanism that protects people from seeing the harsh realities of their addiction.
What is denial?
Feeling good about oneself and confident in your own abilities
What is self-esteem?
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What is both male and female genders.
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
Feelings, experiences, people, places, and things that you associate with your alcohol or drug use.
What are triggers?
The person in which the same amount of a substance no longer causes the same reaction.
What is tolerance?
Becoming the best person possible that you can be, regardless of what kind of job, skills, or intelligence he or she has.
What is self-actualization?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
There are now more than 13,000 people in this most innocent population who are struggling with addiction.
Who are newborn babies?
Many children in this type of family feel guilty when things go wrong. They don't realize they are powerless to fix their families and that the unhealthiness is not their fault.
What is dysfunctional?
1. Identify them, 2. avoid them, 3. interrupt them, and 4. talk about them
What are the four steps in dealing with triggers
Feelings, experiences, and physical reactions that occur when people cut down or stop using their drug of choice.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
When you do this, it stops people from being able to really understand you and your needs.
What is hiding your feelings?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction.
What is dopamine?