12-Step Recovery
This step involves making direct amends, except when doing so would cause harm.
What is Step 9?
SMART Recovery is based on this type of therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Both Refuge Recovery and Recovery Dharma are based on the teachings of this spiritual tradition.
What is Buddhism?
MAT is primarily used to treat these two types of substance use disorders.
What are opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder?
This type of therapy focuses on the connection between the mind, body, and spirit, and is often used as an adjunct to traditional recovery methods.
What is mindfulness-based therapy?
In the Doctor’s Opinion, Dr. Silkworth describes alcoholism as a two-part illness: a "mental obsession" and this.
What is "a physical allergy"?
SMART Recovery's program is built around this many key points.
What is four?
Instead of calling addiction a disease, Buddhist-based recovery models see it as a form of this human experience.
What is suffering?
This medication, often combined with naloxone, is used to reduce opioid cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
What is buprenorphine (Suboxone)?
This holistic practice involves physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation to promote relaxation and reduce stress in recovery.
What is yoga?
This AA co-founder wrote most of the first 164 pages of the Big Book.
Who is Bill W.?
This SMART Recovery tool helps individuals analyze the pros and cons of their addictive behavior versus sobriety.
What is the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)?
In Refuge Recovery, participants follow this path, which includes right view, right effort, and right mindfulness.
What is the Eightfold Path?
This medication, available in monthly injections, blocks opioid receptors and prevents the effects of opioids.
What is naltrexone (Vivitrol)?
This dietary practice, which emphasizes clean, whole foods, is often used in recovery to support both mental clarity and physical health.
What is nutrition therapy or a whole-foods plant-based diet?
Step 10 suggests continuing to take a personal inventory and doing this when wrong.
What is "promptly admitting it"?
The first point of SMART Recovery focuses on gaining and maintaining this over addictive behavior.
What is "motivation"?
This Buddhist principle, meaning "non-attachment," is emphasized as a way to break free from craving and addiction.
What is equanimity?
This long-acting opioid agonist is dispensed in clinics and helps prevent withdrawal and cravings for those with opioid use disorder.
What is methadone?
This form of therapy uses techniques like breathing exercises, meditation, and body awareness to help individuals connect the mind and body for emotional healing.
What is body-centered therapy?
Step 6 states we were "entirely ready" to do this.
What is "have God remove all these defects of character"?
Unlike 12-step programs, SMART Recovery does not view addiction as a disease but rather as this kind of behavior.
What is "a maladaptive learned behavior"?
Unlike the 12 steps, Refuge Recovery and Recovery Dharma encourage taking this action instead of turning to a higher power for help.
What is "taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha"?
MAT follows this treatment model, which prioritizes minimizing negative consequences of substance use rather than requiring complete abstinence.
What is harm reduction? reword the question
This holistic recovery method uses the practice of journaling to help individuals explore their emotions, thoughts, and experiences to promote healing and self-awareness.
What is expressive writing therapy?