Transcript Addiction and dissabilities (PowerPoint)

Addiction and Disabilities
Presented by: Pascale Bedard
Presented by: Pascale Bedard
2012
Addiction
 Primary Disease
 It has multiple manifestations, in the individual’s social,
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psychological, spiritual, and economic well being.
Is often Progressive, and potentially fatal
Marked by loss of control in the person’s ability to stop the
behavior
Preoccupation
Tolerance
Withdrawal: A rule of thumb is that withdrawal tends to
include symptoms that are completely opposite to the
euphoric effects of the drug.
Early Breakthrough
In Addiction Treatment
 The Oxford Group: A nondenominational religious
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group and the psychoanalysis of an American
alcoholic by Carl Jung (1931).
A meeting between William G. Wilson (a stock broker
trying to stay sober) and a surgeon named Dr. Robert
H. Smith (alcoholic at the time).
NEW YORK CITY: Alcoholics Anonymous 1st of 97,000
“clubs”/chapters in 150 Countries with 68% of the
population residing in North America (Marvel, 1995).
1939 Alcoholics Anonymous: The 1st published book
about members and their personal struggles with
sobriety
12 Step Model
The early breakthrough cont’
12 Steps Forward: A Breakdown
of the 12 Steps
 The 12 steps are separated into 3 parts
 The First 3 steps are based on the admittance and
acceptance of ones limitations: Surrendering to a
Higher Power
 Steps 4-9 are based on identifying, confronting and
overcoming any characteristics that have lead to
guilty; shameful behavior, (people, places, and
things).
 Steps 10 through 12: Practice makes Perfect, share
your story.
The 12 Steps and Religion or Faith or
Spirituality???
 The 12 Steps is a TOOL: A multipurpose, one size fits
all, BRILLIANT if you will Tool anyone can use!!!!!!!
 It allows any human of any color, creed, religion or
race to embrace in it’s 3 step process!
 It’s FREE!
 In its simplest form it’s honest, and true, and it
brings people together to share their personal stories
ON…….
Commonalities
 ADDICTION
 ACCIDENTS
 THINGS WE NEVER THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN
TO ME, OR YOU AND US……
 LIFE STRUGGLES
 FINDING WAYS TO COPE
ADDICTION AND HOPE
 In North America the WORDS faith, religion, and
spirituality are MISTAKENLY used
interchangeably.
 Definitions:
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RELIGION: is an organized set of beliefs that are encoded in
certain texts (considered sacred by believers), religion provides
those whom believe with the answers they seek to questions on life.
SPIRITUALITY: A vast range of personal views based on a Higher
Power/Something Greater than Thyself, an empowering life
changing belief in the believer.
FAITH: To have faith in something is to let go of ones own
inhibitions, and embrace the belief in something great to come.
ADDICTION and TREATMENT
 21 Day Programs (Rehabilitation)
 Longer in-patient care and counselling.
 Detoxification: Withdrawal
Management.
 Medical Model of Treatment
 Out-patient care and counselling.
Addiction and Concurrent Disorders
 What is a concurrent disorder?
Pretty much a fancy way of saying you have more
than 1 problem!
2. In Ontario specifically, it means you have an
addiction plus a secondary disorder.
3. In other parts of Canada they refer to a concurrent
disorder as a dual-diagnosis. In Ontario a dualdiagnosis is one plus any number of other obvious
physical disabilities.
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Addiction and Disabilities
 A spectrum TOO large to describe
Addiction is progressive and affects ones social,
physical and spiritual wellbeing.
2. Which may ultimately lead to:
 Anxiety
 Depression
 Loss of interest in all life activities
 Debilitating, Destructive, Disorientations
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Consequences
 Accidents: Things that are completely
out of your control; things you never
intended would happen….
 Children’s Aid
 Shame, Loss, inadequacy
 Picking up the pieces and starting over
Let’s face the Facts
Disabilities and Addiction
 Sometimes accidents do happen!!!! And people do get hurt!
 Sometimes addiction happens after the fact……and later in
life!
 Sometimes people build a tolerance to their medication,
and their body automatically needs more of the medication
prescribed!
FACT: It only takes the human body approximately two
weeks to build a tolerance to ANY OPIOID.
- That means (in some individual’s) the “effective dose would
need to be raised after two weeks in order to continue
working.”
Addiction, Disabilities, and Chronic Pain: What they Share
in Common
 First and Foremost:
LACK of KNOWLEDGE; DISCRIMINATION AND
SECOND OPINIONS!!
 A Physician and Patients right to protect themselves
1. Who is Who??? (This applies mostly to walk-in clinic
doctors, that need to make logical quick decisions
based on what the person is telling them).
2. A patients rights to proper medical treatment
regardless of their personal situations and past
3. Not knowing who to turn to for help, and not being
informed on ALL the options available
Help in our Community
 There is help!
 I have included a pamphlet to handout, to provide
you with these resources.
 Working together and asking questions about your
well-being is your right to the highest possible
quality of life, the first step is to ask.
 DON’T BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR HELP, NO
MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
References
 Dr. A.C.H Hammer and Dr. R.G Mckay: Erie-St.
Clair Clinic.