Recovery Foundations
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
People withdrawing from opioids often experience a runny nose, watery eyes, yawning, and goosebumps—symptoms that can feel a lot like this common illness.
What is the flu (or cold/flu-like symptoms)?
These are people, places, things, or emotions that increase the urge to use substances and are important to identify and plan around.
What are triggers?
This brain chemical is heavily involved in the reward pathway and is released in large amounts by many addictive substances, creating feelings of pleasure.
What is Dopamine?
This legendary singer, known as the "King of Pop", released Thriller in 1982, which remains the best-selling album of all time.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This mutual help fellowship was founded in 1935 and uses a 12-step approach.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
Sudden stopping of heavy alcohol use can lead to this life-threatening condition marked by severe confusion, hallucinations, and seizures.
What is Delirium Tremens (DTs)?
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
Each year in the United States, nearly 178,000 people die from this legal drug, making it a leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is Alcohol?
This team's 2000 defense set a 16-game NFL record by allowing just 165 points all season, capping it off with a 34-7 blowout in Super Bowl XXXV.
Who are the Baltimore Ravens?
This whole-patient approach combines counseling, behavioral therapy, and medications like methadone or buprenorphine to treat substance use disorders.
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
Withdrawal from this class of drugs can closely resemble alcohol withdrawal and carries a risk of seizures and death if not medically managed.
What are Benzodiazepines?
This cognitive-behavioral strategy involves recognizing high-risk situations in advance and creating specific plans for how to handle them without using.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the U.S. kills nearly half a million Americans each year.
What is Tobacco?
This moniker was given to the 1989 championship Pistons squad, known for their aggressive defense and physical style of play.
Who are the Bad Boys?
This model describes the process of change in stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
What is the Stages of Change Model (or Transtheoretical Model)?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is Caffeine?
Skipping meetings, isolating yourself, and romanticizing past use are examples of these.
What are warning signs?
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
Directed by James Cameron, this 2009 science-fiction epic holds the record as the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide.
What is Avatar?
This approach emphasizes reducing the negative consequences of substance use rather than requiring immediate abstinence.
What is Harm Reduction?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, bowel changes, falling heart rate, fatigue, insomnia, and intense irritability.
What is Nicotine?
This four-letter recovery acronym prompts people to pause and check their basic needs before they act on an urge.
What is HALT? (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired)
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects, and may result in dangerously low blood pressure.
What is an inhalant?
This pop star's debut single didn't just top the charts in 2010; it also became the first-ever song to sell over 600,000 digital copies in a single week by a female artist.
Who is Kesha?