Intoxication/Withdrawal
A medical process focused on treating symptoms of withdrawal comfortably and safely.
What is Detoxification?
A medication used to reverse overdose from opioids.
What is Narcan/Naloxone
The return to alcohol or drug use after a significant period of abstinence.
What is Relapse?
Non-clinical groups in which individuals participate in conversations and activities that engage, educate, and support those struggling with and recovering from addiction.
What are Peer Recovery Groups?
Efforts used to manage stressful events and difficult thoughts and emotions.
What are Coping Skills?
Alteration of the body's responsiveness to alcohol or a drug such that higher doses are required to produce the same effect achieved during initial use.
What is Tolerance?
A stage in early recovery from addiction. This state involves feelings of excitement, confidence about recovery, euphoria, and elation.
What is Pink Cloud?
Not using alcohol or drugs.
What is Abstinence?
A mutual support program for individuals whose lives have been affected by someone else's drinking.
What is Al-anon?
Any therapy services offered when the client is not admitted to a hospital or residential program.
What is Outpatient Treatment?
The use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies. ____ can be effective in the treatment of opioid use disorders and can help people sustain recovery.
What is Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
A negative sentiment that is re-felt over time and is considered a trigger for relapse for a person in recovery.
What is Resentment?
Factors that increase the likelihood of beginning substance use, of regular and harmful use, and of other behavioral health problems associated with use.
What are risk factors?
AA meetings that are only open to members, or those who desire to quit their alcohol use.
What is a Closed Meeting?
A prescription medication used to treat opioid addiction that is a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone.
What is Suboxone?
A medication primarily used to manage alcohol or opioid use disorder by reducing cravings and blocking the action of opiates.
What is Naltrexone?
A model that describes the stages people go through as they change their behavior.
What are the Stages of Change?
Strategies aimed at reducing substance use as well as negative consequences associated with substance use.
What is Harm Reduction?
Someone who has worked through a twelve-step program, maintained sobriety, and mentors others on their recovery journeys.
What is a Sponsor/Peer Recovery Coach?
A psycho-social intervention that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression and anxiety disorders.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? (CBT)
A powerful and strong desire/urge for alcohol or a substance. A symptom of the abnormal brain adaptions that result from addiction.
What is a Craving?
An emotional, environmental or social situation that drags up memories of drug or alcohol use.
What is a Trigger?
A person's perception of an event or circumstance resulting in them suffering long-term physical, emotional, and/or life-threatening harm.
What is Trauma?
A group of people with common experiences or concerns who may provide each other with encouragement, comfort, and feedback.
What is a Support Group?
Focuses on behavioral tools designed to help a teen or young adult cope with the stresses and challenges of daily life and develop greater self-esteem in order to better manage their recovery.
What are Life Skills?