Glossary

Relapse Prevention
Relapse Prevention is a type of cognitive-behavioural therapy used in treating drug addictions and alcoholism.

What is Alcoholism
Alcoholism is also known as alcohol dependence. Alcoholism is a disease that includes a strong physical craving coupled with a mental obsession to drink alcohol.

Alcohol Dependence
Alcohol dependence is a more advanced stage of alcohol abuse, when you experience a craving for alcohol.

What are AA Meetings?
AA meetings are meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Alcoholics Anonymous is an organization which is dedicated to the provision of help for alcoholics, and this service is delivered by alcoholics.

Binge Drinking
Binge drinking is drinking an excessive amount of alcohol in one time, usually with the aim of getting drunk.

Alcohol Detox
Alcohol detox refers to a process of safely stopping drinking regular large amounts of alcohol.

Drug Rehab
Drug rehab usually means a residential psychological treatment which teaches the former drug addict how to interact with others and live their life without the need for drugs.

Alcohol Rehab
Alcohol rehab refers to the treatment of alcoholism. An alcohol rehab is a centre that offers treatment for the brain disease of alcoholism. Clients will receive psychological therapy and addiction counselling, and follow a 12 Step programme. They will often require a detox which is also offered at most leading alcohol rehabs.

Drug Rehabilitation Centres
Drug rehabilitation centres provide a period of residential rehabilitation for people suffering the effects of drug addiction.

Drug Addiction Rehab
Drug addiction rehab is part of the treatment process for drug addiction.

Drug Addiction Treatment
Drug addiction treatment is the medical and psychological treatment for drug addiction.

Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol abuse is when someone drinks too much alcohol such that it harms their body.

Drug Rehab Centres
Drug Rehab centres are places which provide drug addiction treatment.

Drug Detox
Drug detoxification refers specifically to the medical supervision involved in being weaned off drug abuse and addiction.

Drug Withdrawal
Drug withdrawal refers to the symptoms that may be experienced when a drug addict who takes drugs suddenly stops takes drugs.

Drug Abuse
Drug abuse occurs when drugs are used for pleasure in an addictive way. What starts off as an experiment soon becomes and addiction and a real illness.

Drug Rehabilitation clinics
Drug Rehabilitation clinics are places that provide care and support to former drug users to enable them to return to a healthy life after a period of illness from their addiction.

Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are a type of medication often prescribed as part of medically supervised drug withdrawal and treatment.

Opiate intoxication
Opiate intoxication is a severe intoxication or overdose with opiate drugs,

Alcoholism Treatment
Alcoholism is a treatable disease. Alcoholism Treatment information

Alcohol Withdrawal
Alcohol withdrawal is range of symptoms which occurs when heavy drinkers or those who are alcohol dependent stop drinking.

Miaow Miaow
Miaow miaow is another name for the drug mephedrone.

Addiction
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences

Abstinence
Definition of abstinence - The complete avoidance of all mood and mind altering substances. Some recovering addicts and alcoholics have been known to go through serious medical procedures, even operations needing General Anesthetics with only anti-inflammatory medication for pain management.

Addict
What does it mean to be addicted? An addict is a person who suffers from the disease of addiction. This disease is an obsessive and compulsive condition where the person engages in destructive patterns of using a substance or behaviour to avoid feelings and escape.

Addiction
Definition of addiction

Addictionology
Define Addictionology

Addictionologist
Define Addictionologist

Addiction medicine
Define Addiction medicine

Drug Addiction Treatment
The formal and cohesive delivery of a professional range of drug services, most commonly in-patient and including detox, group therapy, one on one counselling, didactic lectures on addiction consequences and recovery routes out of active addiction.

Addiction Treatment Centre
The best addictions treatment centres have the full continuum of care, providing out-patients rehab, detoxification as and when needed, after hours rehab, day care addiction programmes and in-patient short and long term rehab facilities.

Addiction Treatment Program
The daily activities that provide structure within an addiction treatment centre or alcohol treatment rehab, objective is to assist alcoholic and addicted people to make the necessary changes that will enable them to remain clean and sober

Alcohol Abuse
The pathological use of alcohol. Alcohol used in such a manner that it causes negative consequences to financial, emotional, social, physical or career performance.

Alcohol Poisoning
Symptoms of alcohol poisoning can include; semi or total loss of consciousness (passing out), slow, irregular or shallow breathing, low body temperature, persistent vomiting, no response to pain. If you think somebody may have alcohol poisoning it’s best to seek medical attention immediately.

Alcohol
Legal in most cultures Alcohol is a liquid, mind and mood altering chemical, often used as a social lubricant. Alcohol abuse can lead to alcoholism.

Alcoholic
Being diagnosed an alcoholic revolves around loss of control over starting drinking, amounts drank and when they stop drinking. Tolerance and withdrawal are also important features as is neglecting important social, recreational or vocational activates in favour of drinking and time taken to recover from drinking.

Alcohol dependency
A physical addiction to alcohol, a syndrome in which alcohol consumption is required in order to prevent alcohol withdrawal symptoms from occurring.

Antagonist
Antagonist. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Amphetamine
Amphetamine. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Buprenorphine (Subutex)
Buprenorphine (Subutex). Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Chemical Abuse
Chemical abuse: Using chemicals or substances, including alcohol, to such a degree that it interferes with important social, recreational, emotional and vocational functions.

Alcohol Treatment Centre
A licensed clinic that specialises in the screening, assessment and treatment of alcoholism and related disorders.

Alcoholism as a Primary Illness
Alcoholism as a Primary Illness, that the alcoholism needs to be addressed first - other diagnosis’s e.g. depression, can be most accurately made and treated only once the alcoholic is in stable recovery.

Disease
Disease: in medical terms, an involuntary disability. No one is to blame for disease.

The drug MDMA
MDMA is both a stimulant and a psychedelic leaving users feeling energized and with distorted perceptions

Dual Disorder
The term dual disorders or dual diagnoses refers to cases in which the individual has both a substance abuse disorder and a coexisting psychiatric illness

What is a Drug?
What is a drug? There is evidence that drugs, or mood-altering substances, have always been a part of human culture, since at least the Old Stone Age. There seems to be a human need for mood-altering substances. Throughout recorded history they have served a sacramental function, a medical function, a celebratory function, and a mood-altering function.

Heroin Addiction
Heroin is a powerfully addictive member of the opiate family of drugs. It causes physical and psychological dependence and leads to addiction.

GHB addiction
GHB (or Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid) is a depressant and has an intoxicating effec

AA - Alcoholics Anonymous
AA , a worldwide organisation devoted to the recovery from alcoholism through self-help groups and adherence to its 12 step programme.

Absorption
Food and alcohol are absorbed through the stomach and intestines. Nicotine is absorbed through the lungs.

Acamprosate (Campral)
Acamprosate (Campral) - A medicine used to reduce cravings for alcohol.

Acid
Acid - Slang for LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), a synthetic (man-made) drug that has been abused for its hallucinogenic properties since the 1960s.

Acid Head
Acid Head - User of LSD

Acute effects
Acute effects - The short-term effects of a drug. Acute effects are those that people feel shortly after they ingest a drug and are under its influence (e.g., while they are intoxicated).

Adaptive Behaviours
Adaptive Behaviours - useful because we acquire them as a response to the world around us. Adaptive behaviors can initially help us get the things we want and need for life.

Addict
Addict - A person that is addicted to a substance. Addiction is clinically referred to as dependence and is characterised by mental obsession and physical compulsion to continue using drugs despite the recurrent negative consequences cased by the drug use.

Drug Addiction
Addiction - A chronic, relapsing disease, characterised by compulsive (loss of control) drug-seeking and drug-taking despite adverse health, social, or legal consequences to continued use, and by neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain.

Abuse
In addiction terms, drug or alcohol abuse is used to describe ill-use of chemicals and alcohol. When prescription drugs are not taken as indicated or taken without prescription, the behaviour is described as abuse.

Acceptance
In addiction or alcohol recovery terms those suffering from an addiction first find acceptance, and regain some power, through accepting and admitting that they have a problem. They will also find acceptance of ongoing importance as a 12 step recovery principle in their everyday lives, especially in connection with aspects of their lives that they have no control over. 12-Step programmes regard acceptance as a means of breaking through denial or to finding serenity in one's life.

Acetaldehyde
This is what is achieved when alcohol dehydrogenase is broken down by the body for absorption, and is a metabolite.

Addiction Assessment
Upon entering a treatment facility or starting therapy for addiction rehab, patients undergo an assessment of their lives, including their past addictive patterns, their upbringing, family, relationships and other areas that are related to their psychological make-up.

Addiction treatment Facility
An addiction treatment facility is a centre where addicts can receive treatment for their addictions.

Addiction Treatment Unit
An addiction treatment unit is a medical centre for the treatment of alcohol and other drug addictions.

Addictive Drugs
Addictive drugs can cause changes in the brain and behaviour and potentially lead to loss of control over amounts of drugs used and what the consequences will be.

Addictive Personality
One theoretical addictions treatment school of thought uses the term addictive personality to describe the psychological make-up of a person who is prone to habit-forming behaviours, which are unmanageable, obsessive and compulsive.

Adrenal Gland
Adrenal Gland. This gland is pertinent to addiction as drugs like Cocaine increase the levels of these hormones in the body.

Adverse Reaction
An adverse reaction is a reaction to a drug or substance that was not intended or predicted, and has a negative effect on the individual which is detrimental to their well-being.

Aftercare
Aftercare is a term used to describe the follow-up care after a treatment programme for addiction to alcohol or other drugs.

Agonist
When a person uses drugs, there is a point at which they cannot get any “higher” and if they continue to ingest drugs at this point, the effect will not cause a greater level of intoxication; it will merely stay the same, for longer.

AIDS
An acronym for the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, a disease spread through the exchange of bodily fluids, often through sex and the sharing of needles during drug use.

Al-Anon
Al-Anon’s view is one of ‘powerlessness’ over the alcoholics drinking and that it’s best to focus on helping oneself before you can effectively help the alcoholic. The fits in with the view that alcoholism is a family disease.

Alateen
This is a 12 Step support group for children who have an alcoholic as a parent.

Alcohol dehydrogenase
When alcohol is metabolised, an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase breaks down the alcohol as soon as it enters the stomach. The enzyme is found in the stomach and liver.

Alcoholism liver disease
Fatty liver, the most common form, is reversible with abstinence. More serious ALD (Alcoholism liver disease) includes alcoholic hepatitis, characterized by persistent inflammation of the liver, and cirrhosis, characterized by progressive scarring of liver tissue. Either condition can be fatal.

Alcohol Treatment Facility
This is a licensed facility that specializes in the evaluation and treatment of alcoholism and associated addictions. Many people use drugs in conjunction with alcohol. The facility may provide residential treatment, partial hospital treatment or outpatient services.

Chlordiazepoxide
Alcohol detox can be dangerous. Using medication such as chlordiazepoxide in a reducing regime over several days as the alcohol withdrawal symptoms diminish is wise.

Alkaloids
When plants produce an organic compound, it is called an alkaloid. Morphine is an alkaloid, derived from opium poppies.

Amphetamine psychosis
This state of psychosis can persist for weeks or even months after the drug has been withdrawn. It so closely resembles the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia that it has been speculated that the two conditions have the same underlying chemical basis in the brain.

Analgesic
An analgesic is medication or drugs that relieve pain. This includes all drug types intended for pain relief, from paracetamol to morphine.

Anaesthesia
There are two types of anaesthesia: 1 - Local anaesthesia, where a loss of sensation occurs, and 2. General anaesthesia - where a loss of consciousness occurs if under general anaesthesia. This can be caused by inhalation of aesthetic gas or an injection of an anaesthetic agent.

Anaesthetic
An anaesthetic is a drug that produces loss of sensation and consciousness.

Anger Management
Anger management is a type of counselling with a focus on helping people to manage anger in more adaptive and appropriate ways, and not in violent or passive aggressive ways.

Anonymity
Anonymity is a spiritual principle that is a key part of 12 Step programmes such as AA (Alcoholics Anonymous). Anonymity encourages a state of privacy, and the withholding of personal details from public view in order to keep the identity of members private and to keep the principles of the programme intact.

Anorexia
Anorexia is the loss of appetite for food whereas anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder; a disease where the sufferer is obsessed with weight loss and dieting.

Antabuse
Antabuse - (Disulfiram) disulfide is a white to off-white, odourless, and almost tasteless powder, soluble in water, which causes a sever reaction if alcohol is also subsequently consumed. This is the first drug ever approved for treating problem drinkers.

Antidepressants
Antidepressants are a group of drugs used in treating depressive disorders. There are many different types of anti depressants, and they are often helpful in assisting in the treatment of co-morbidity (psychiatric illness and addiction).

Treatment Centers
Treatment centers are staffed by professionally trained and qualified Alcoholism and Addiction Treatment Consultants.

Zero Tolerance
Zero Tolerance. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Abstinence
Abstinence is normally used when referring to recovery addictions to alcohol and drugs, sex, eating disorders and/or gambling.

Yets
Yets. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Y.E.T.
Y.E.T.. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Yaba
Yaba. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Amped
Amped. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Bio-Psycho-Social
Bio-Psycho-Social . Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Barbiturate
Barbiturate. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Behaviour Modification
Behaviour Modification . Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Bong - Addiction Rehab
Bong - Addiction Rehab. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

BMT – Buprenorphine Maintenance Therapy and Addiction Rehab
Buprenorphine maintenance therapy is a treatment for opioid addiction. Two brands of buprenorphine have been approved for opiate addiction treatment in America – Subutex and Suboxone.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Drug Addiction
Borderline Personality Disorder and Drug Addiction. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Boundaries and Addiction Treatment
Boundaries and Addiction Treatment. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Buprenex
Buprenex. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

Buprenorphine and Addiction Treatment
Buprenorphine and Addiction Treatment. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

12 Step Meetings
12 Step Meetings. Glossary. Drug Addiction Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Centre.

The 12 Step Recovery Process
The 12 Step Recovery Process . Article. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

12 Step Rehab
12 Step Rehab. Glossary. Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabiliation Advice.

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