Recovery Medications 💊
This medication makes a person feel sick, causing sweating and vomiting, if they drink alcohol.
Disulfiram (or Antabuse)
This term describes attending meetings regularly, speaking up, and working through the steps rather than just sitting and listening.
Active Participation
***Double Point Challenge***
This national institute considers addiction to be a brain disease.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
This monthly injection helps people stick to their treatment because it is given only once a month.
Vivitrol (or extended release naltrexone)
***Double Point Challenge***
This type of support person is a mentor in recovery who listens, shares their own experiences, and guides you through the program.
A sponsor
***Double Point Challenge***
These physical symptoms, like anxiety, nausea, and sweating, occur when a person first stops using a substance.
Withdrawal symptoms
This medication reduces emotional post-acute withdrawal symptoms like anxiety and mood swings for those recovering from alcohol use.
Acamprosate (or Campral)
This type of 12-step meeting allows anyone to attend, whether they have an addiction or not.
An open meeting
Addiction is described as this type of complex disease because it affects your biology, psychology, social life, and spirit.
Biopsychosocial-spiritual disease
This slow-acting medication is the preferred treatment for opioid use disorder in pregnant women.
Methadone
This is the type of 12-step group that allows members on medication to fully participate, speak, and hold service positions.
This brain chemical is released less when a person drinks alcohol while taking Naltrexone, which lowers the pleasure of drinking.
Dopamine
This partial opioid agonist relieves cravings without causing a high and can be prescribed directly in a doctor's office.
Beprenorphine
According to AA and NA Step One, this is the specific thing a person admits they are powerless over.
Alcohol, drugs or addiction
This second stage of withdrawal mostly features emotional symptoms and can happen off and on for up to two years.
Post acute withdrawal symptoms (PAWS)