SUD Definitions
This is a chronic condition where you use substances chronically that can affect many or all aspects of your life, including your physical and mental health, relationships and career.
What is Addiction.
Cart, Weed, Joint, Green, Smoke
What is Marijuana?
You and your counselor plan of goals and objectives of what you are going learn through treatment.
What is a treatment plan?
What are Mooring lines? What are they used for?
Mooring lines are activities that tie us to our recovery. Activities that keep us in recovery.
3 deep breaths, Picturing a light switch and having another subject ready to think about, Snapping a rubber band and saying no.,
What are Thought stopping techniques.
What are a constellation of aversive symptoms—ranging from anxiety, tremors (“the shakes”), and nausea to hallucinations and frank seizures—brought on by the sudden stoppage or dosage drop of long-term drug use.
What are withdrawals?
Hug drug, XTC, X, E Adam, clarity, and Love drug.
What is Ecstasy?
Drug use disorder will make you attend one of these.
What is a substance use disorder treatment program. (Rehab)
Activities or places that you really enjoy doing or going to but have to save up to do or to go to.
What are Islands of rest (Vacations)
Calling a counselor. Calling a friend. Taking a day off. Talking to your family. Going to a 12 step or outside mutual help support meeting. Exercising. Talking with to your spouse. Scheduling time more rigorously.
What are actions may help prevent relapse?
What will cause a gradual scarring process that’s triggered by chronic inflammation in your liver. Any chronic liver disease that causes chronic hepatitis.
What is Cirrhosis of the liver?
GHB, Rohypnol, Roofies, Ketamine
What is Date rape drugs?
If you attend at least 9 hours of treatment per week is what level of treatment?
What is Level 2.1 Intensive Outpatient Treatment?
When things get so difficult I have to stop looking at the entire picture or the entire year. I have to break it down and only look at today.
What is One day at a time?
A persons relationship with God. The deepest Level from which a human being operates. The philosophical context of a persons life( Values, rules, attitudes, and views). The same as religion.
What is Spirituality? (Higher Power)
Treatment approaches that address an individual’s specific situation and any co-occurring medical, psychiatric, and social problems
What is substance use disorder treatment.
Horse, Chiva, black tar, China white, Negra, smack, Big H, dope, junk skag, poison.
What is Heroin?
When they collect bodily fluids (Urine, Spit) to ensure you have not used any illegal substances without letting you know ahead of time.
What is a random drug test, or UA.
I write down my triggers on one of these so I can make sure I know my triggers so I know what I am going to have to avoid in the future.
What is a trigger journal?
When your addicted brain convinces you that you have no choice but to use?
What is Relapse Justification?
It is a type of psychosis that is attributed to substance use, and can occur from taking too much of a certain drug, having an adverse reaction after mixing substances, during withdrawal from a drug, or if the individual has underlying mental health issues. The psychotic symptoms are considered a physiological consequence of a drug of abuse, a medication, or toxin exposure and cease after removal of the agent.
What is Narcotic Psychosis
Blow, C, Nose Candy, Lines, Freeze, Snow, Boger sugar, Coca.
What is Cocaine?
God Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
What is The Serenity Prayer
When you meet with your counselor via telehealth or in person to talk about your weeks issues or concerns, triggers or cravings, relapse or relapse prevention skills used during the week.
What is an individual session?
Loneliness, Anger, Feeling Deprived.
Emotional Triggers