Coping Skills
This simple technique involves slowly inhaling and exhaling to calm your body during stress.
What is deep breathing?
A person, place, feeling, thought, or situation that increases the desire to use is called this.
What is a trigger?
This chemical messenger is strongly involved in motivation, reinforcement, and the brain's reward system.
What is dopamine?
This mutual-help fellowship uses a 12-Step approach and was originally developed for people seeking recovery from alcohol.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
This Iron Man actor has publicly discussed his history of addiction and recovery.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
Calling a sponsor, friend, family member, or other safe person instead of isolating is an example of using this.
What is a support system?
H.A.L.T. reminds people in recovery to check whether they are experiencing these four conditions.
What are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired?
This part of the brain is heavily involved in judgment, planning, decision-making, and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This 12-Step fellowship welcomes people seeking recovery from drug addiction regardless of the particular substance used.
What is Narcotics Anonymous (NA)?
This rapper behind “Lose Yourself” has publicly discussed his recovery from prescription drug addiction.
Who is Eminem?
This grounding technique asks you to identify 5 things you see, 4 you can touch, 3 you hear, 2 you smell, and 1 you taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
Leaving a high-risk situation, calling support, attending a meeting, and using coping skills are examples of having one of these prepared ahead of time.
What is a relapse-prevention plan?
Repeated substance use can strengthen associations between substances and people, places, emotions, or situations, causing these to produce powerful urges.
What are cravings/triggers?
This recovery program uses tools based largely on cognitive-behavioral and motivational approaches and is an alternative to traditional 12-Step programs.
What is SMART Recovery?
This actor from A Star Is Born has publicly discussed becoming sober and how recovery affected his life and career.
Who is Bradley Cooper?
In the S.T.O.P. coping skill, these four letters remind you what to do before reacting impulsively.
What are Stop, Take a step back/breath, Observe, and Proceed mindfully?
Relapse is commonly described as developing through these three stages rather than beginning only when substance use occurs.
What are emotional, mental, and physical relapse?
The brain's ability to reorganize and form new neural connections through learning and experience is called this.
What is neuroplasticity?
Dialing or texting this three-digit number in the U.S. connects someone experiencing a mental-health or suicide-related crisis with crisis support.
What is 988?
This British comedian and actor wrote Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions and has publicly discussed his own recovery.
Who is Russell Brand?
Instead of saying, “I messed up, so I might as well give up,” changing the thought to “I made a mistake, but I can make a different choice now” demonstrates this CBT skill.
What is cognitive reframing?
A person begins isolating, stops attending meetings, romanticizes past substance use, and starts contacting people associated with previous use. These behaviors are examples of this.
What are relapse warning signs?
Over time, a person may need increasingly larger amounts of a substance to experience an effect similar to what a smaller amount once produced.
What is tolerance?
This medication can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose and is commonly available as a nasal spray.
What is naloxone/Narcan?
This singer known for songs including “Rocket Man” has publicly discussed decades of sobriety and recovery.
Who is Elton John?