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The complete avoidance of some consumable item or behavior. Full article... |
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Abuse happens when he or she drinks or uses at a level that causes problems in one or more areas of his or her life. Full article... |
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Pharmacological substances that have the potential for creating abusive dependency. Full article... |
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An anti-craving agent widely used in Europe to prevent relapse in alcohol-dependent patients and currently undergoing clinical trials in the U.S. prior to possible Food and Drug Administration approval. Full article... |
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To regard as true. Within the 12-step support groups acceptance is regarded as a key to breaking denial and/or to finding serenity in one's life. It is not synonymous with "approval." Acceptance is also mentioned in The Serenity Prayer, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change..." Full article... |
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The extent to which an individual who needs care and services is able to receive them. Full article... |
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Certification by an external entity that an organization has met a set of prescribed standards.
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The metabolite that results when alcohol breaks down alcohol in the body. Full article... |
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An Analgesic (pain remover). Full article... |
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Adult Children of Alcoholics. Someone who grew up in a home with at least one alcoholic parent, guardian or caregiver. Sometimes used to designate those whose family or origin was otherwise dysfunctional. Full article... |
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Includes art, dance, music, recreational and occupational therapies, and psychodrama. Full article... |
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A potentially fatal overdose of alcohol, a medical emergency that requires immediate attention. A result of binge drinking. Full article... |
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The physical or psychological harm a drug might present to the user immediately or soon after the drug is ingested into the body. Full article... |
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Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance. Full article... |
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Essential to effective counseling in many areas which seem unrelated to addiction because its effects are often hidden causes of other problems. Full article... |
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A measure which gathers a broad range of assessment data relevant to an offender's substance abuse, his/her treatment planning needs, and diagnoses. Full article... |
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The attempt by one individual(s) to cause another individual(s) to cease or reduce a harmful behavior. Full article... |
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Drugs that change the brain, change behavior, and lead to the loss of control of drug-taking behavior. Full article... |
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An addictive personality is a trait, or set of traits, that develops in response to habit-forming drugs/alcohol or compulsive behavior (gambling, overeating/undereating, sex). Full article... |
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One who is addicted to a substance, activity or habit. Full article... |
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Therapy provided to enhance the effect of an primary therapy; auxiliary therapy. Full article... |
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Usually under 18 years of age the techniques or actions customarily applied in a specified addictive situation Full article... |
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Reaction to a drug that is different from the desired outcome. Full article... |
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Follolw-up care provided after a medical procedure or treatment program. Full article... |
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The age of a person when he,she first engaged in addictive behavior. Perhaps the single most important factor in the assessment of an addiction. Full article... |
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A drug or medication that can interact with receptors to stimulate drug actions or effects. Full article... |
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Full article... |
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The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve their common problems. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of alcoholism in a relative or friend. Full article... |
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A Twelve Step program for adolescent children of alcoholics. Full article... |
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A device used to measure the blood alcohol content of a person by the measuring of the alcohol content of a person's breath. Full article... |
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A syndrome characterized primarily by the continued use of alcohol despite the drinker’s knowledge of having a persistent physical problem or some social or occupational difficulty. Full article... |
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A syndrome in which alcohol abuse involves a variety of significant physical, psychological, social, and behavioral problems. Full article... |
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A major cause of illness and death in the United States. Fatty liver, the most common form, is reversible with abstinence. More serious ALD includes alcoholic hepatitis, characterized by persistent inflammation of the liver, and cirrhosis, characterized by progressive scarring of liver tissue. Either condition can be fatal. Full article... |
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A condition in which a toxic amount of alcohol (ethanol, ethyl alcohol) has been drunk, usually in a short period of time. The toxicity is related to the blood level of the alcohol. Full article... |
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A person who practices, as a full or part time employment, the rehabilitation of people who are suffering from alcohol abuse or addiction. The person must be paid for these services and not perform them solely as a volunteer activity. Full article... |
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Someone who demonstrates a continuous or periodic impaired control over drinking; preoccupation with alcohol; and use of alcohol despite adverse consequences and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Full article... |
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A worldwide organization devoted to the treatment of alcoholism through self-help groups and adherence to its principles. Full article... |
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A condition in which the consumption of alcohol has produced major psychological, physical, social, or occupational problems. Full article... |
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The condition of holding opposite feelings (such as love and hate) for the same person or object. Full article... |
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To act genuinely to "fix" things. Full article... |
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This state of psychosis "often persisting for weeks or even months after the drug has been withdrawn, so closely resemble the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia that it has been speculated that the two conditions have the same underlying chemical basis in the brain. Full article... |
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This drug is a yellowish, volatile, inflammable liquid with a fruity odor called "snappers" or "poppers", as they come in glass capsules that are broken. Full article... |
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Drugs that relieve pain. Full article... |
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Phencyclidine or PCP Full article... |
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commonly refers to a system of psychological therapeutic techniques and exercises by which one with excessive or uncontrollable anger can control or reduce the triggers, degrees, and effects of an angered emotional state. Full article... |
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The state of being unknown or unacknowledged. A tradition of 12 step support groups maintained by the use of first names only, in order to keep principles above personalities and to protect the identity of members. Full article... |
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Lack or loss of appetite for food, accompanied by a noticeable weight loss if it is chronic. Full article... |
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Bis(diethylthiocarbamoyl) disulfide is a white to off-white, odorless, and almost tasteless powder, soluble in water, which causes a sever reaction if alcohol is also subsequently consumed. The first drug ever approved for treating problem drinkers. Full article... |
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A substance that blocks the effects of another specified drug; for example, naltrexone is an antagonist for opioids Full article... |
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A substance, which is used in the prevention or treatment of infectious diseases. Full article... |
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A group of drugs used in treating depressive disorders. Full article... |
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A call to the accused to come before the court to hear charges or enter a plea. Full article... |
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The taking of an individual into custody by law enforcement personnel for the purpose of charging them with an illegal act. Full article... |
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An official form completed by the police department when a person is arrested. Also, a cumulative record of all instances in which a person has been arrested. Full article... |
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The measurement of personal characteristics. Assessment is an end result of gathering information intended to advance psychological theory and research and to increase the probability that wise decisions will be made in applied settings Full article... |
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A tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia. Full article... |
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We do not promote AA. Instead, we attract alcoholics to recovery by living as examples of recovery. Full article... |
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