Relapse Prevention
Biological Aspects of Addiction
Triggers, Cravings, and
Avoiding Relapse
Thoughts
Thought Process
100

All recovering people have certain people, places, emotions, and things that are somehow associated with drinking or using drugs.

What are triggers?

100

Drugs cause this chemical in your brain to release more than average amounts.

What is Dopamine

100

This is feelings of worry, racing thoughts, and restlessness are signs of this.

What is Anxiety?

100

Interpreting the thoughts and beliefs of others without adequate evidence.

What is Mind Reading?

100

Seeing only the worst possible outcomes of a sidtuation. 

What is Catastrophizing?

200

is simply the awareness that there is something beyond that which can be seen.

What is Spirituality?

200

Addiction physically affects this organ in the body.

What is the brain?

200

These are feelings, experiences, people, places, and things that you associate with your drinking or drug use.

What are Triggers?

200

This technique involves picturing a light switch in your mind.

What is The Mental Switch?

200

These are irrational thoughts that can influence your emotions.

What are Cognitive Distortions? 

300

This involves a specific expression of belief about a superhuman power or powers.

What is Religion?

300

The process by which the body rids itself of drugs.

What is Detoxification

300

These are feelings that people have before or during drinking or using drugs.

What are Internal Triggers

300

The belief that one is responsible for events outside of their own control.

What is Personalization?

300

Assuming something is true based on feeling even if there's no evidence proving it to be true.

What is Emotional Reasoning?

400

A healthy recovery requires people to change their.

What are Life-Stiles?

400

This is the only drug that you can die from withdrawals.

What is Alcohol

400

These are the people, places, and things associated with drinking or using drugs.

What are External Triggers?

400

The belief that things should be a certain way.

What are"Should" Statements?

400

Making broad interpretations from a single or few events.

What is Overgeneralization?

500

With this defense mechanism, people do not let themselves think about threatening or painful thoughts, feelings, desires, memories, or beliefs.

What is Repression

500

These are emotional or physical limits that people set to create a healthy sense of personal space.

What are boundaries

500

These are related to the senses of sight, sound, taste, and touch.

What are Sensory Triggers?

500

The belief that acts will influence unrelated situations. 

What is Magical Thinking?

500

The expectation that a situation will turn out badly without adequate efidence.

What is Fortune Telling?

600

This is a defense mechanism in which people return to ways of dealing with the world that they have long since outgrown.

What is Regression?

600

These are naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons

What are Neurotransmittersare

600

The first step in dealing with triggers is to what?

What is Identifiying them?

600

You can promote this by using a number of different techniques.

What is Relaxation

600

Recognizing only the negative aspects of a situation while ignoring the positive.

What is Disqualifying the Positive?

700

An individual's reaction to stress usually goes through three stages:

What is Alarm, Resistance, Echaustion

700

The loss of control, and continued use despite negative consequences.

What is Physical Dependence?

700

Some triggers can't be avoided; instead, you will need to do this.

What is Interrupt them?

700

Some triggers, such as pay day or Friday nights, can't be avoided, but you can do this so these triggers have less power.

What is Change your Routine?

700

Interpreting the meaning of a situation with little or no evidence.

What is Jumping to Conclusions?

800

There are three main types of stressors:

What are Frustrations, Conflicts, and Pressures?

800

This describes a situation in which the body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug.

What is Reverse Tolerance?

800

When you become aware that a particular situation, person, place, or thing is a trigger, you should.

What is Avoid or Leave the trigger?

800

Process that allows you to sit still, clear your mind, and focus on breathing.

What is Meditation

800

Thinking in absolutes such as "always", "never", or "every"

What is All-or-Nothing Thinking?