PCB CRS EXAM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Define Recovery. - Answer️️ -No single definition. Recovery = different
things to different people at different times.
Defining recovery from: - Answer️️ -1. Physical illness
2. Trauma
3. Mental health
4. Oppression
5. Racism
6. Pover...
SAMHSA Working Definition of Recovery: - Answer✔️✔️-A process of
change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live
a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
SAMHSA 4 dimensions that support a life in recovery: - Answer✔️✔️-1.
Health: A) Overcoming or managing one's disease(s) or symptoms—for
example, abstaining from use of alcohol. B) Making informed, healthy
choices that support physical and emotional well-being.
2. Home: A stable and safe place to live.
3. Purpose: Meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, independence,
income and resources to participate in society.
4. Community: Relationships and social networks that provide support,
friendship, love, and hope.
The History of Addiction & Recovery from 1750-1875 - Answer✔️✔️-• 1750:
1st sobriety "Circles" are formed within Native American tribes.
- Contemporary Native American Sobriety Movement: "talking circle."
• 1774: Anthony Benezet's Mighty Destroyer Displayed is published.
- It is the earliest American essay on alcoholism.
• 1784: Dr. Benjamin Rush's says alcoholism = disease.
- His work = beginning of Temperance movement: Driven by mainly
women looking @ alcohol abuse; made pledges against drinking.
• 1810: Dr. Benjamin Rush calls for creation of a "Sober House" for the care
of the confirmed drunkard.
• 19th century: Morphine, laudanum, & cocaine were newly discovered,
unregulated, and freely prescribed.
- These drugs were available in patent medicines and sold by traveling
salesmen, drugstores, or by mail.
- In U.S. Civil War, morphine was used freely.
• 1875: opium dens were outlawed in San Francisco.
The History of Addiction & Recovery from 1900-1950 - Answer✔️✔️-• 1906:
Pure Food and Drug Act required labeling of patent medicines containing
opium and some other drugs.
• 1914: Harrison Narcotic Act forbade the sale of large doses of opiates &
cocaine except by doctors.
- Later, heroin was banned from the sale of medicines.
• Later Supreme Court decisions made it illegal to prescribe narcotics to
addicts.
- Doctors who prescribed maintenance doses for treatment were jailed.
• 1920's: use of narcotics and cocaine diminished.
• 1919: the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the use
and distribution of alcohol.
• 1933: Prohibition repealed.
• 1930's: most states required anti-drug education in schools, but fear that
knowledge led to experimentation caused trainings to end.
• Mid 1930's: U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement
Administration) ran campaign to show marijuana as addicting drug that
led to narcotics use.
• 1950's: the use of marijuana increased again, along with amphetamines
and tranquilizers.
The History of Addiction & Recovery from 1960s-Present - Answer✔️✔️-•
1960's: big increase in drug use and some increased social acceptance.
• 1970's: some states had decriminalized marijuana and lowered the
drinking age.
- U.S. troops invaded Panama and brought Manuael Noriega to trial for
drug trafficking.
The Foundation of the Recovery Process Transformation: - Answer✔️✔️-The
Civil Rights Movement (Civil Rights movements like African-American
Civil Rights Movement, Voting, and Women's, Disability, Patient, HIV, and
Prisoner Rights).
The Recovery Process Transformation declares that: - Answer✔️✔️-People in
recovery have the same civil rights as any other citizen: Life, Liberty, and
the pursuit of recovery.
Legislation Enacted to Support Changes from the Recovery Process
Transformation: - Answer✔️✔️-1. Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990
2. Olmstead Decision, June 22, 1999
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: - Answer✔️✔️-•
Physical or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person's right to fully
participate in all aspects of society
• Society has tended to isolate and segregate individuals with disabilities
• Discrimination persists
• Often had no legal recourse
To be protected by the ADA... - Answer✔️✔️-One must have a disability or
have a relationship or association with an individual with a disability.
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