Triggers
The first step in dealing with triggers is
IDENTIFYING them
If a person continues to think about drugs, it becomes more likely that he or she will have a
Craving
True or False:
For many people, addiction to alcohol progresses at a slower rate than cocaine or heroin addiction.
True
In stage 1, regular, heavy drinking begins to cause ____________. This means that the same amount of alcohol produces less of an effect for the person over time. To get the same desired effect, the person needs to drink more.
Tolerance
The most widely used drug in the world.
Nicotine
When you have identified certain high-risk situations, people, and other triggers, you need to try to
AVOID them
People, places, situations, and feelings that have become associated with alcohol and other drug use.
Triggers
Many people mistakenly believe that _________ and religion are the same thing.
Spirituality
In stage 2, the drinker will begin to have _________ lapses about things that happened while drinking. These may be “blackouts.”
Memory
Involves reaching outside of oneself for help and guidance to make personal, positive changes.
Spirituality
Some triggers can’t be avoided; instead, you will need to
Interrupt them.
The most dangerous type of withdrawal is from
A. Opioids
B. Hallucinogens
C. Alcohol
C. Alcohol
Addiction is overpowering. Thus, people need to get help from someone or something outside of themselves, something more powerful than themselves or their addiction. The Twelve Step programs call this a
Higher Power
In stage 3, a person loses the ability to _________ his or her drinking. During this phase, many people use more than one drug at the same time, and they may switch from one drug to another.
Control
A defense mechanism in which people return to old ways of dealing with the world that they have long since outgrown. It is like retreating to an earlier stage of life involving less mature behavior.
Regression
Most people who experience cravings, which are brought on by triggers, will keep them to themselves and suffer silently. But by keeping silent, they give the cravings time to build up, and that can lead to
Relapse
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, physical and mental defects in unborn child, can occur in a mother who drinks as a little as how many drinks per day?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
B. 2
________ is something in the world that makes a demand on a person.
Stressor
Alcoholics have a higher risk for ________ of the mouth, tongue, back of the throat (pharynx), voice box (larynx), tonsils, and esophagus.
Cancer
The emotional reaction that would normally accompany a painful event is avoided by a seemingly logical explanation that removes the painful feeling of the event. For example, a person may reduce the pain experienced from a parent’s death by saying, “He lived a full life and died without pain.” Feelings of disappointment are avoided by saying, “It could have been worse.”
Intellectualization
The CAGE Questionnaire is a screening for what?
Alcoholism
Alcohol is a sedative-______, because it calms people down, and makes them sleepy.
Hypnotic
______ - _______ recovery programs are powerful external support systems. Without these support systems, even minor problems can become overwhelming. With strong support systems, even large problems and emergencies can be dealt with more easily, because the individual is not dealing with the problem alone but with support.
Self-help
Stage 4 includes prolonged _______ of intoxication. These can cause the drinker mental or physical problems. This stage is often called severe, or late stage, alcoholism.
Binges
With this defense mechanism, people do not let themselves think about threatening or painful thoughts, feelings, desires, memories, or beliefs. Some people call it “selective remembering.”
Repression