Recovery Acronyms
MAT
What is Medication Assisted Treatment?
This class of drugs, including heroin, fentanyl, and OxyContin, is the primary focus of the documentary
What are opioids?
This singer who remade Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" for the movie "The Bodyguard" struggled with substance use and died in 2012
Who is Whitney Houston?
This coping skill involves focusing on the present moment without judgment
What is mindfulness?
This model describes motivation for recovery as a process that includes Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, and Relapse
What are the stages of change?
HALT
What is hungry angry lonely and tired?
The documentary explains that addiction is not a moral failing but rather this type of condition
What is a chronic, treatable medical condition?
or DISEASE!
"Self Care" - one of his signature songs, is often discussed in relation to recovery and mental health themes. This artist died in 2018 of an overdose from fentanyl, cocaine, and alcohol
Who is Mac Miller?
These can be people, places, emotions, or situations that increase the risk of substance use
What are triggers?
In addiction recovery, these inaccurate or unhelpful thinking patterns can lead people to justify substance use or lose hope about change.
What are cognitive distortions?
CBT
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Addiction hijacks this brain system that normally helps humans learn which behaviors are important for survival
What is the reward system?
After overcoming prescription drug addiction, sober date 4/20/2008, this rapper released the recovery-themed anthem "Not Afraid."
Who is Eminem?
This strategy involves distracting yourself with another activity when a craving hits
What is a coping skill?
What is a formal apology and change in behavior called in recovery (steps 8 and 9)
What is an amends?
SUD
What is substance use disorder?
Providing Narcan, access to clean supplies, and STD testing is an example of what?
What is Harm Reduction?
This Iron Man actor who struggled with alcohol, cocaine, heroin and served prison time later achieved long-term recovery and rebuilt his career
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
These gatherings provide fellowship, support, and accountability
What are recovery meetings?
(AA, CMA, NA, SR, CR, etc)
This coping strategy involves identifying irrational thoughts and replacing them with more balanced, realistic ones.
What is cognitive restructuring?
ODAAT
What is one day at a time?
Programs that do not encourage use of/provide access to these two medications medications have an 80-to-90 percent failure rate in treating opioid addiction
What is Methadone and Buprenorphine (Suboxone, etc)?
The artist who sang "Circle of Life" for "The Lion King" is also Eminem's AA sponsor
Who is Elton John?
Recovery experts use this phrase to describe mentally fast-forwarding past the urge to use and focusing on the likely outcome and consequences?
What is Play the Tape?
Daily Double-
This term describes the brain's ability to form new neural connections and rewire itself through learning, recovery, and repeated healthy behaviors, making long-term recovery possible.
What is neuroplasticity?
or
Rewiring the Brain....