recovery | | The goal of addiction treatment |
ugly | | A set of maladaptive, compulsive behaviors learned by family members in order to survive in a family which is experiencing great emotional pain and stress |
treatment | | What you are getting when you are learning how to stay sober. |
lie | | Episodes of memory loss as a result of excessive drug or alcohol use |
sobriety | | The thing that reminds you how bad you want to use |
me | | When you have a mental health and a substance abuse diagnosis. |
formication | | Vivid visual memories of your past |
denial | | tetra-hydro-cannibol |
depression | | Likely to spend time in this fine establishment if you keep using. |
withdrawal | | The process by which an individual who is physically dependent on a substance is withdrawn from it. |
alcoholicsanonymous | | Much more likely to be involved with these people if you are actively using. |
peerpressure | | When you want to quit but can not, you are _______ . |
relapse | | The disorder that come from children being born to mothers who drank while pregnant |
marijuana | | Related to your higher power - plays a very important role in recovery. |
flashbacks | | Symptom when coming off of methamphetamines that insects are crawling on you (warning this is a hard one). |
STD | | Desire to use |
genetic | | Mental health diagnosis that often goes along with addiction |
enabling | | Its hard to keep one of these when you spend a lot of time high. |
stupid | | When you don't think you have a problem -defense mechanism |
anger | | One we we loose family trust |
alcohol | | What its called when an addicted person's family and friends gather together to confront the addicted person. |
dependent | | Why some people use drugs or alcohol: to avoid _____. |
disease | | Compulsive and often uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a drug. |
codependency | | Leading cause of relapse. |
craving | | Drinking while pregnant can cause these. |
triggers | | When you are not physically dependent but you are engaging in regular drug _______ . |
police | | Alcoholism is considered this because it gets worse, its treatable, if left untreated you will die. |
job | | Symptoms that come when some one stops using a drug or alcohol after using a lot for a long time. |
drugtest | | How you look after years of drug or alcohol use. |
fetalalcoholsyndrome | | Likely to loose a lot of this if you keep using. |
abuse | | Type of 12 step meeting |
addiction | | The process of learning to cope with feelings on a daily basis free from mind changing chemicals. |
addicted | | How people act when they are high. |
spirituality | | What some people in recovery have a hard time earning after years of addiction. |
trust | | Leading cause of death in emergency rooms |
paranoid | | what its called when friends try to get you to use with them |
blackout | | What you are when you can't quit because your body is physically ______. |
dualdiagnosis | | You are at a lot higher risk for catching this when you are drunk or high. |
detox | | The person I hurt most when I use drugs or alcohol. |
intervention | | What you will be randomly given by your probation officer if you are arrested for drug use or paraphenalia. |
jail | | Falling off the wagon |
birthdefects | | What happens to crack users who have been using all night long. The get _________ . |
pain | | Tendency for addiction to occur in the same family |
money | | When one person aids another person's use |