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Defining your Relationship w Drugs

Women in Recovery<br>Defining your Relationship w Drugs<br>- Ariel Chrisopher

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Defining your Relationship w Drugs

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  1. Defining Your Relationship With Drugs Week 5

  2. Quiet Time • Sit quietly for a minute or two, and focus on where we are now.

  3. Today’s Agenda • Quiet Time • Check- in • Exploring personal relationship with substances • What does a healthy relationship with a substance look like? • The Continuum - What does an unhealthy relationship with substance look like? • Where is YOUR line? – discussion

  4. Check-in • Name • Feeling • Last use • 12-step meetings? What happened? • Who attended a meeting? • If you did not attend a meeting • • Did you think about it? • • What prevented your attendance? • • What can you do differently this week? • Success with last week’s recovery tool? (binders)

  5. Session Goals • To understand that our relationships with alcohol and other drugs progress along a continuum. • To personalize and classify our own relationships with various substances

  6. …FourCharacteristics of a Healthy Relationship with a Drug

  7. Characteristics of aHealthy Relationship • Knowledge • Benefits • No negative “side effects” • Freedom to choose

  8. Knowledge? • Recognition that the substance you are using is a drug and awareness of what it does to your body • Examples of drugs that people don’t realize they are using • Read info from pharmacy?

  9. Benefits? • Experience of a useful effect • of the drug over time.

  10. Why People Use Drugs Possible Useful Effects • To treat disease • To alter moods • To escape boredom and despair • To promote and enhance social interaction • To enhance sensory experience and pleasure • To stimulate artistic creativity and performance • To improve physical performance • To rebel • To go along with peer pressure • To aid religious practices • To explore the self • To establish an identity

  11. SideEffects? • Freedom from adverse effects on health or behavior Possible effects • Uncertainty of Dose and Quality • Mixing Drugs • Medical Problems • • Acute problems (i.e. overdosing & allergic reactions; injuries) • • Chronic problems (i.e. irritate & damage body systems; lifestyle can influence self-care like diet, sleep, hygiene & exercise) • • Pregnancy complications • • Misdiagnoses due to drugs changing or masking symptoms • • Drug induced/aggravated psychiatric disorders

  12. Possible Side Effects • Social and Behavioral Problems • Relational • Altered Inhibitions • Diminished Ability to Process Social Cues • Distortion of Emotional Experience • Family • Employment • School • • Life Threatening Social Situations • Developmental Problems • Impaired mental development • Impaired emotional development • Impaired physical development • Legal Problems • DWI • Assault & Domestic Violence • Possession & Distribution • Dependency & Addiction • Physiological • Psychological • Limits Personal Freedom!

  13. Freedom? • Ease of separation from the use of the drug. • Withdrawal • • Psychological or Physical • • The Substitution Syndrome • Tolerance • More of the same drug for benefit • Stronger drug for benefit

  14. Add relationship with drugs hand out one way and 2 way street.

  15. Break time!

  16. Personalizing Discussion • Where are you in your relationship with your drug of choice? • If you think you are still on a two-way street, does your relationship meet all our criteria of a healthy relationship? • Have you passed the point of no return?

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