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This means the physical and/or mental dependence on a particular substance(s) or activity
Activities that can help when stressed, anxious or when cravings occur and can include breathing, meditation, exercise, or listening to music.
What are coping skills.
Used to combat heroin/opiate overdose
What is Narcan or Naloxone
A type of treatment is three hours, three times a week.
The effort to prove that our behaviors are valid or reasonable (examples include celebrations, boredom or "I've been clean long enough to do it just once."
What is the fastest addicting drug?
What kind of trigger is people, places, things, or situations?
What is an external trigger.
The acronym H.A.L.T stands for:
What part of the brain is the rational brain, the decision-making part of your brain.
This stage of recovery can be a physical condition similar to withdrawal, a subtle uneasiness, or something in between.
What is the Wall Phase
What is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction?
What is Dopamine
One of the most common & effective coping skills a person in early recovery can develop is, this string of behaviors characterized by "a sequence of actions regularly followed.
What is Routine or Scheduling
A formal of written document that includes your personal triggers/stressors, coping skills, support contacts, and help lines.
True or False: Forcing someone into treatment won't yield results; they have to want it.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
This disease can involve blackouts, liver damage and severe withdrawal that can lead to death.
What is alcoholism.
Certain feelings or emotions that trigger the brain to think about using substances.
This drug is often prescribed to help with the withdrawals of heroin?
What part of your brain is the emotional part of the brain: this is your pleasure center.
What is the lower brain.
Definition of a Co-Occuring Disorder.
What is having a substance use disorder, and mental health condition at the same time
Removal of a drug from the body that may cause unpleasant effects
What is staying focused and present, "being in the moment."
What is mindfulness
Stopping the triggering thought when it first begins to prevent it from building into an overpowering craving?
What is to recognize that the problem exists.
What are the 5 stages of recovery?
Withdrawal Phase, Honeymoon Phase, Wall Phase, Adjustment Phase, Resolution Phase.