Coping Skills
This is a type of coping skill you can do anywhere just by focusing on how fast you breathe in and out
Breathing Skills
These are negative influences from your past who can still be a triggering part of your everyday life
People
These are the prepackaged bottles of your medication to be taken per the date listed on the label
Take Homes
These are used to treat SUD, they are medications that are partial or full antagonists that make it more difficult to absorb substances like opioids
Methadone and Suboxine
This is what you need to show at the desk every time you come in
BHG ID (Drivers license or other picture ID can occasionally be accepted)
This is an activity that you can do that can help keep you grounded, whether it is crayons, markers, colored pencils, or an app, it can be a great distraction
Coloring
These can be influences that when you visit can remind you of past use and start to become a trigger
Places
This is when you have no withdrawal symptoms that pop up before your next dose and where the doctor expects you to be at before getting take homes
A Stable Dose
These two substances, when used unmonitored with methadone, can be more dangerous than intended
Benzos and Alcohol
This (job) is a worker at BHG who can help provide resources for financial, food, housing, employment, transportation, (and more) to support you
TCM (Targeted Case Manager)
This is a group outside of BHG that helps provide a place to discuss your successes and failures with recovery and get social support to aid in your recovery
AA/NA
These objects that can remind you of use, these can be common place or more rare, and become more triggering the more we focus on them
Things
This is a container that you must have to get take homes. It should be able to lock and you should be the only one with a key. Without it nurses can deny take homes until it is provided
Lock Box
This is a program that the health department runs which helps obtain clean needles and discard dirty needles to help promote safety and reduce the spread of illnesses that can significantly impact health
Clean Needle Program
BHG is this, a place where you come in to complete counseling and get your medication while going home and working
Out-patient
(BHG is out-patient MAT)
This is a coping skill that can help you process thoughts and emotions by forcing you to slow your thoughts to the speed that you can write at
Journaling
Feelings that when built up can lead to use
Emotions
This is a, new to BHG, program that you can speak with your counselor about for eligibility, which can help us work towards take homes faster
Sonara
60% of synthetic overdoses is linked to this substance
AND
50x to 100x more potent than morphine
Fentanyl
This is a higher level of care than BHG, which we can work with to still provide medication, that can help you focus on only recovery to find your footing and can have programs that range from short term (7 days) to long term (30 days or more)
In-patient
This is when you take a moment to relax, focus on your breathing, and/or allow thoughts to come and go as you focus on being in the moment
Meditation
Ideas and thoughts that can happen while you sleep that make you want to use while awake
Dreams of Use
This is when you come in on a day you usually have a take home and you come in for a UDS and bottle count (with your full and empty bottles)
Diversion
These help slow the affects of overdose for an individual so that they can become stable while waiting for an ambulance and you can get them for free at the front desk by asking our front desk (Ivory)
Narcan
What chemical in the brain does substances trigger that is the reward pathway and is a factor in addiction
Dopamine