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A substance invented by the Bayer Company in Germany in the late 1800's and thought to be a cure for morphine addiction.
What is heroin. **The scientists who invented it and used it said it made them feel heroic, thus, the name heroin**
Program grounded in the belief that Buddhist principles and practices create a strong foundation for a path to freedom from addiction.
What is Refuge Recovery
Two symptoms of withdrawal.
What is SWEATING, GOOSEBUMPS, VOMITING, ANXIETY, INSOMNIA, or MUSCLE PAIN
•Medication •Behavioral therapy •Groups •Rehab •Inpatient/outpatient •Recreational •Occupational •Medical •Voc. Rehab •Music
What are treatment options
Social, environmental or emotional situations that remind people in recovery of their past drug or alcohol use. These cues bring about urges that may lead to a relapse
What are triggers?
Purely from the point of total cost and harm to the community, which is usually considered by experts to be the most 'dangerous' drug? This is probably due to its widespread use in most places.
What is alcohol.
Program for parents, children, spouses, partners, brothers, sisters, other family members, friends, employers, employees, and coworkers whose lives have been affected by someone else's substance abuse.
What is Al-Anon?
What are two ways to tell if someone has taken a very large dose of heroine?
They become comatose and their skin feels cold and clammy.
What is the best program of treatment for someone addicted to opiates?
What is treatment that is customized for the individual.
Three well-balanced meals daily Three nutritious snacks daily Avoid sugar and caffeine
What is a diet for a recovering person.
This drug is still used as a localized, external anaesthetic
What is cocaine.
The three sides of the Triangle – AA’s three legacies.
What are Unity, Service and Recovery?
Abnormal physical or psychological features that follow the abrupt discontinuation of a drug that has the capability of producing physical dependence
What are withdrawal symptoms?
Facility in Louisville, Kentucky that provides the best inpatient care for individuals with Substance Use Disorder
What is Landmark Recovery?
This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.
What is Justification
This term actually means to induce sleep, but the public often interprets it, wrongly, to mean any legal drug sometimes used illegally.
What is narcotic.
4-point support program for long-term sobriety that teaches how to manage addictions by focusing on unhealthy thought patterns and beliefs and gradually learn self-empowerment.
What is SMART Recovery?
Many commonly prescribed pain pills are actually a combination of an opiate and Tylenol(acetaminophen). Abusing any medication containing acetaminophen can be particularly damaging to which part of the body?
What is the liver.
The first stage of treatment
What is Detoxification
Our brain learns by ________ and _________.
What is repetition and reward
The most commonly abused drug across the nation
What is Marijuana
Published in 1939, this is the common name for the text for AA.
What is the Big Book?
Bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, blackouts, limb spasms,hearing loss and the loss of brain cells are consequences from abusing what type of drugs?
What are inhalants?
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM length of time a person should stay in treatment?
What is 90 days.
5 skills you have learned in treatment to overcome cravings and triggers
(this is a question with many answers. Must answer in form of question still). What is (are) a sponsor, a relapse prevention plan, laughter, service, work, being with family, hobbies etc.