When a person's physical response to a substance lessens over time.
What is INCREASED TOLERANCE?
A therapy looks to identify and help change potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviors.
What is BEHAVIORAL THERAPY?
These can be created by people, places, and things that remind you of using.
What are HIGH-RISK SITUATIONS?
Feeling the need to constantly move, being unable to calm your mind, or a combination of the two.
What is restlessness?
A drink that contains ethanol, a type of organic chemical compound produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar that acts as a drug.
What is ALCOHOL?
Lung or heart disease, stroke, cancer, and/or hepatitis B or C.
What are PHYSICAL HEALTH PROBLEMS?
A dosage form that contains one or more active and/or inactive ingredients that can come in many forms like tablets, capsules, liquids, creams, and patches.
What is MEDICATION?
These help with the ability to relax and manage stress and the ability to change negative thinking.
What are COPING SKILLS?
A sensation that the heart is racing, pounding, fluttering, or skipping a beat.
What are HEART PALPATATIONS?
A tall plant with a stiff upright stem, divided serrated leaves, and glandular hairs.
What is CANNABIS or MARIJUANA?
A temporary loss of memory induced by a drug or alcohol?
What is a BLACKOUT?
A collection of techniques, measures, and tools to help you avoid relapses during and after substance use disorder treatment so that you can maintain sobriety.
What is a RELAPSE PREVENTION PLAN?
Your thoughts and emotions on paper.
What is a JOURNAL or DIARY?
Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or made angry.
What is IRRITABILITY?
A compound of the extraction from the poppy plant in addictive properties or physiological effects.
What is an OPIOID?
Disruptions in the brain's highly evolved frontal cortex, which regulates cognitive activities.
What is IMPAIRED DECISION MAKING?
This requires patients to check themselves into a controlled environment to overcome their addictions.
What is INPATIENT or RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT?
H.A.L.T. is a gateway to relapse. What does H.A.L.T. stand for?
A. hamburgers, apples, lettuce, and tomatoes
B. hungry, angry, lonely and tired
C. hangry, awful, lazy and ticked off
D. hair, ascots, lashes, and ties
The answer is B.
Thinking and feeling like you are being threatened in some way, even if there is no evidence, or very little evidence, that you are.
What is PARANOIA?
What is METHAMPHETAMINE?
Delusions or hallucinations.
What is PSYCHOSIS?
This includes group therapy sessions, individual counseling, life skills classes, and support groups.
What is INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT TREATMENT or IOP?
The quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.
What is MINDFULNESS?
Acronym that sometimes includes symptoms of anxiety, anhedonia, depression, irritability, sweats, sleeplessness, tiredness, cravings or urges
What is Post Acute Withdrawal (PAWS)
This stimulant is in coffee beans, tea leaves, kola nuts, (used to flavor soft drink colas), and cacao pods (used to make chocolate products).
What is CAFFEINE?