Concepts
Active abstinence from drinking alcohol or taking intoxicating drugs.
What is Sobriety?
This substance is a synthetic opioid, and can be found in pill or powder form.
What is Fentanyl?
Medical treatment of an alcoholic or drug addict involving abstention from drink or drugs until the body is free of toxins.
A plant based drug containing the chemical tetrahydrocannabinol which has intoxicating and mild altering effects.
PAWS stands for _____.
Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
Techniques that can help you manage stress, anxiety, and other difficult emotions.
What is Coping Skills?
This synthetic stimulant is often used to treat ADHD when prescribed correctly.
What is Methamphetamine?
A mutual support group for people who have been affected by a loved one's drinking/use.
What is Al-Anon?
A synthetic, addictive, mood-altering class of drugs used illegally as stimulants.
What are Amphetamines?
PAWS can last up to this long after last use.
What is 1-2 years?
This refers to the different sides of the self that can occur in both PTSD and substance abuse.
What is Split Self?
This opioid is derived from morphine, which is in turn derived from opium poppy seeds.
What is Heroin?
When someone seeking substance abuse treatment attends treatment during the day but returns home every night.
What is Outpatient/IOP?
A class of drugs that increase the activity in the brain.
This general PAWS symptom presents as difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or getting quality sleep.
What is Insomnia?
Reminders that put people in a mental and emotional place of distress, pain, anger, frustration, and craving.
What is Triggers?
A psychoactive drug and chemical substance found in some medicines and household products.
What is Alcohol?
Facilities that provide safe housing and supportive, structured living conditions for people exiting drug/alcohol rehabilitation programs.
What is Sober Living?
A large class of psychoactive drugs that can cause altered states of consciousness, such as major changes in thought, mood, and perception.
What are Hallucinogens?
This symptom of PAWS presents as a reduced ability to experience pleasure or interest in activities that were once enjoyable
What is Anhedonia?
Doing something to correct a mistake that one has made or bad situation that one has caused.
What is Making Amends?
What is Crack Cocaine?
A period of intense happiness and optimism that occurs during the early stages of recovery from drug or alcohol use.
This is a class of prescription drugs that slow down brain activity to produce a calming or drowsy effect.
What are Benzodiazepines?
PAWS symptoms for Benzodiazepines can sometimes be confused with the return of intensified withdrawal symptoms, a phenomenon known as ____.
What is symptom rebound?