Facts
Most opioid overdose deaths today involve this powerful synthetic opioid.
What is fentanyl?
This term is used to describe someone who has both a mental health and substance use diagnosis.
What is Dual Diagnosis OR Co-Occurring Disorder?
This medication is used to reverse an opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone? (Narcan)
This plan identifies warning signs, coping skills, and support people before a crisis occurs.
What is a relapse prevention plan? (OR- safety plan?)
This class of drugs includes heroin, fentanyl, morphine, and oxycodone.
What are opioids?
This substance causes the greatest number of overdose deaths in the United States.
What are synthetic opioids (such as fentanyl)?
A substance use disorder is diagnosed using criteria found in this manual.
What is the DSM?
This medication causes unpleasant symptoms if someone drinks alcohol while taking it.
What is antabuse?
This group type focuses on teaching information and new skills.
What is psychoeducation?
This substance is a stimulant commonly prescribed to treat ADHD but can also be misused.
What are amphetamines (e.g., Adderall) or methylphenidate (e.g., Ritalin)?
A previous nonfatal overdose is one of the strongest predictors of this future outcome.
What is a future overdose or overdose death?
This DSM-5 criterion describes needing significantly more of a substance to achieve the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Name two of the three FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder.
What is methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone?
This evidence-based counseling style helps clients explore and resolve ambivalence about change.
What is motivational interviewing?
This stimulant is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world.
What is caffeine?
This legal substance contributes to more preventable deaths each year than all illicit drugs combined.
What is tobacco?
This DSM-5 criterion is often considered one of the hallmark features of addiction because it reflects a strong desire or urge to use a substance.
What is craving?
This substance use disorder currently has no FDA-approved medications for treatment.
What is stimulant use disorder? (or methamphetamine )
People with lived experience who help others navigate recovery are called this.
What are Peer Support Providers?
Small "pinpoint" pupils are commonly associated with this class of drugs.
What are opioids?
This organ is most affected by addiction.
What is the brain?
The DSM-5 recognizes this number of severity levels for substance use disorders.
What are three (mild, moderate, and severe)?
Unlike methadone, this medication for opioid use disorder has a "ceiling effect," reducing the risk of respiratory depression.
What is buprenorphine?
This evidence-based treatment uses tangible incentives to reinforce abstinence and other recovery behaviors and has some of the strongest evidence for stimulant use disorder.
What is contingency management?
This substance is taken as a tablet, drank in tea, or chewed resulting in increased alertness, physical energy, and potentially sedative effects at high doses
What is Kratom?