The next slide will point out that everyone has a viewpoint with regard to addiction that is based on his/her own experiences. Display Slide 5.1.13 - Personal-Professional Dimensions of Substance Use (PG:7) Say: All of us our personal perspectives to our work, many including views and experiences regarding addiction from our families of origin. Know how your viewpoint affects your view of parents. Each person’s experience with substance use is unique; what worked for you or your family may be different from what will work for our families. Discuss your issues with your supervisor to ensure that your own life experiences do not interfere with your ability to work objectively with your families. Tell a story based on your own experience, about how your views/experiences about substance abuse affected how you worked with someone OR use a story based on someone else’s experience OR ask the participants if anyone can relate to how this may apply to their job. For example: If a person had an addiction of any kind in the past and has recovered or overcome that addiction, they may believe that if they can do it anyone can do it, they did not see it as a disease or fatal. OR They may believe that it is useless to try to help people who are addicts because they don’t want help. Remind participants to keep their own viewpoints in mind as they continue this training. After brief discussion continue on to next slide to describe the characteristics of a disease Say: A nonuser or casual alcohol/drug user may have difficulty understanding why addicts just don't stop. Use and abuse of psychoactive (mood-altering) drugs seem to be voluntary; addiction seems to be characterized by involuntary, compulsive use. In most cases, addicts just don't stop because they are addicted; they cannot stop on their own. A person may start out taking drugs voluntarily. But as time passes, and drug use continues something happens that makes a person go from being a voluntary drug user to a compulsive drug user. Why? Because the continued use of addicted drugs changes your brain - at times in dramatic, toxic ways, at others in more subtle ways, but often in ways that result in compulsive and even uncontrollable drug use. Display 5.1.14: Criteria for Substance Dependence (PG:8)
The next slide will point out that everyone has a viewpoint with regard to addiction that is based on his/her own experiences. Display Slide 5.1.13 - Personal-Professional Dimensions of Substance Use (PG:7) Say: All of us our personal perspectives to our work, many including views and experiences regarding addiction from our families of origin. Know how your viewpoint affects your view of parents. Each person’s experience with substance use is unique; what worked for you or your family may be different from what will work for our families. Discuss your issues with your supervisor to ensure that your own life experiences do not interfere with your ability to work objectively with your families. Tell a story based on your own experience, about how your views/experiences about substance abuse affected how you worked with someone OR use a story based on someone else’s experience OR ask the participants if anyone can relate to how this may apply to their job. For example: If a person had an addiction of any kind in the past and has recovered or overcome that addiction, they may believe that if they can do it anyone can do it, they did not see it as a disease or fatal. OR They may believe that it is useless to try to help people who are addicts because they don’t want help. Remind participants to keep their own viewpoints in mind as they continue this training. After brief discussion continue on to next slide to describe the characteristics of a disease Say: A nonuser or casual alcohol/drug user may have difficulty understanding why addicts just don't stop. Use and abuse of psychoactive (mood-altering) drugs seem to be voluntary; addiction seems to be characterized by involuntary, compulsive use. In most cases, addicts just don't stop because they are addicted; they cannot stop on their own. A person may start out taking drugs voluntarily. But as time passes, and drug use continues something happens that makes a person go from being a voluntary drug user to a compulsive drug user. Why? Because the continued use of addicted drugs changes your brain - at times in dramatic, toxic ways, at others in more subtle ways, but often in ways that result in compulsive and even uncontrollable drug use. Display 5.1.14: Criteria for Substance Dependence (PG:8)
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