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Define Recovery. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No single definition. Recovery =
different things to different people at different times.
Defining recovery from: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Physical illness
2. Trauma
3. Mental health
4. Oppression
5. Racism
6. Poverty
,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.
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, • 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.
ALREADY SOLVED CORRECTLY
ANSWERS!! | ASSURED SUCCESS
Define Recovery. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No single definition. Recovery =
different things to different people at different times.
Defining recovery from: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Physical illness
2. Trauma
3. Mental health
4. Oppression
5. Racism
6. Poverty
,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.
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, • 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.
