PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

Drug and Alcohol Recovery Workshop

Table of Contents

Session One: Define the Disease of Addiction, the Effects It Has On the Brain and the Body1

Diseases of Drug Addiction1

Effects on the Body and Mind1

Session Two: Long Term Effects of Drug and Alcohol2

Session Three: Identifying and Expressing Feelings3

Enabling3

Intermediate3

Terminal4

Session Agenda5

Lecture Notes5

Directions for activities5

Session Four: Relapse Warning Signs6

Session Five: Coping Skills6

Treatment of addiction6

Session Six: Self Affirmations, and Relaxation Techniques6

Session Seven: Providing Resources: Drug Rehabilitation programs, NA and AA groups7

Session Eight: The importance of support groups and sponsors, people, places, and things.7

Session Nine: Medical care programs for those without insurance8

References9

Drug and Alcohol Recovery Workshop

Session One: Define the Disease of Addiction, the Effects It Has On the Brain and the Body

Diseases of Drug Addiction

Drugs are, in essence, poisons. Influence of drugs and their effect depends on the dose. A small amount of acting stimulant (increases activity). More sedative effect (suppresses activity). There are more drug acts as a poison and can kill. Effect of drugs on human rights can be found in many areas, whether it's coffee, arsenic, or methamphetamine. Effects of drugs on human are multifaceted (Hanes, 2002).

Diseases related to Drug addiction include: Acute confusion, Adult failure to thrive, Decisional conflict, Defensive coping, and Dysfunctional family processes: Alcoholism, Ineffective community therapeutic regimen management, Ineffective coping, Ineffective denial, Ineffective family therapeutic regimen management, Ineffective health maintenance, Moral distress, Risk for compromised human dignity, Risk for impaired liver function, Risk for poisoning, Risk for self-directed violence, Risk for sudden infant death syndrome, Sexual dysfunction, Sleep deprivation.

Effects on the Body and Mind

Addiction always starts as physiological symptoms of the disease occur in the body of the victim. These symptoms begin when a person uses drugs for an extended period, a development of a physical tolerance as a result. Once tolerance develops, the physical dependence is inevitable with the use continues. At this stage, central nervous system body has become chemically dependent on the substance to maintain normal functions (Herman, 2006). When a person about something thinks he mentally sees the picture of it. These mental images are easy to see. Close your eyes and think about a cat and you'll see a cat. Every second of the human mind "photographing" the set of images and stores them in order to solve various problems in life.

Session Two: Long Term Effects of Drug and Alcohol

Person is experiencing different emotional states. There is a whole scale of these states, on top of that enthusiasm, and at the bottom - apathy. Throughout his life, people move up and down on this scale. Effect of drugs affects the person's mood. Addicts can take drugs to get an apparent sense of happiness. However, this method does not work. Cocaine gives a person a false sense of joy. But, when the action of the drugs stops, the man promptly falls even lower than it was before. And every time the emotional fall lower and lower. Eventually, the drugs finally destroy all the creative abilities of man (Obvert, 2000).

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