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Counseling and Support Groups
The Addiction Continuum
The Recovery Continuum
Treatment Options
Strategies for Getting Well
100
Perfessional indeviguel or group help for alcoholics or drug adicts.
What is counseling?
100
Once an addiction sets in.
What is when does a person need help?
100
This process happens at different rates.
What is recovery?
100
This will help people with the same problem.
What is a support group?
100
Admiting there is a problem.
What is the first step?
200
usually anonomous help group that can also help with alcohol and drug addiction.
What is a support group?
200
Fast, slow, maybe never.
What is the amount of time it takes to become addicted.
200
Slips from recovery, or periodic returns to drinking or drugs.
What is a relapse.
200
Medical and psychological care during their stay at a medical rehabilitiation facility.
What is inpatient treatment.
200
Reaching outside the family for the first time can feel like this.
What is betrayal?
300
The process of pulling back or seperating from involvment.
What is detachment?
300
The process of addiction makes it hard to do this.
What is prediction?
300
Detoxification
What is the removal of all drugs from the body?
300
Medical and psychological care while able to stay at home.
What is outpatient treatment?
300
Reaching outside the family for help.
What is the second step?
400
Al-Anon
What is a worldwide self-help organization for people who are close to alchoholics.
400
A process-a seiries of gradual changes that happen over time.
What is addiction?
400
Detoxification needs to take place under this.
What is medical supervision?
400
Continuing care facilities that help people recovering from servere addictions.
What is a halfway house.
400
Recovery can happen faster if this takes place.
What is family responsibility for an alchoholic?
500
A support group for ages 12-20 who are around familly or friends that drink or do drugs.
What is Alateen
500
Addiction
What is a process-a series of gradual changes that happen over time?
500
Staying clear of all drugs.
What is abstinence?
500
A good starting point.
What is having the addict talk to someone they trust?
500
Alchoholics usually live by these three rules.
What is "Don't talk, don't trust, don't feel."