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This is the most commonly used legal psychoactive substance in the world.
What is caffeine?
This popular 12-step program helps individuals recover from alcohol addiction.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
What is a substitute addiction?
Replacing one addiction with another.
People go to these daily or weekly to get support.
What are meetings?
True or False:
Substance use rose considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic.
True
True or false:
Grief only happens when an individual dies.
False.
This coping skill involves allowing yourself to fully feel and express emotions instead of avoiding them.
What is emotional processing/healthy expression?
Substance use may begin as an attempt to do this with overwhelming mental health symptoms.
What is self-medicate?
What does OASAS stand for?
The Office of Addiction Services and Support
This feeling often comes after hurting someone else.
What is guilt?
This feeling can make people yell, slam things, or shut down.
What is anger?
True or false:
Cravings usually pass if you wait them out.
True.
What is the brand name for naloxone?
Narcan.
This type of grief occurs when someone doesn’t have the chance to fully process a loss or when their grief keeps getting interrupted.
What is complicated grief/unresolved grief?
This category of drugs includes heroin, morphine, and prescription painkillers.
What are opioids?
What is the legal agency in addiction treatment services for NY?
OASAS
This is a plan created to maintain sobriety and avoid relapse.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This healthy physical habit helps your brain and body feel better.
What is exercise?
True or false:
Triggers are always obvious.
False.
This term describes a slip in recovery, but not a full return to old patterns.
What is a lapse?
What four things are needed to break the shame and denial cycle?
Awareness, Self-Compassion, Honesty, Connection
This is the medical term for needing more of a substance to feel the same effect.
What is tolerance?
This class of medications, including methadone and buprenorphine, is used to treat opioid addiction.
What is MAT?
This is a ceremony you have at the end of your time completing the program.
What is the coin ceremony.
This natural chemical messenger helps regulate mood and is often affected by substance use.
What is serotonin?
What is the planned activity Monday through Friday that is meant for a fun release?
Recreation Therapy or RT
What is a cover emotion?
A secondary, often more intense emotion like anger or frustration that masks a more vulnerable or primary emotion.
_____ is the feeling that something is wrong with you as a person.
What is shame?
This syndrome occurs when a person stops using a drug after becoming dependent.
What is withdrawal?
What does MAT stand for?
Medication-Assisted Treatment
What is the first step toward getting help?
Admitting you have a problem.
This stress hormone often spikes during withdrawal and can increase relapse risk.
What is cortisol?
What should you do if you are not feeling good?
Inform a staff member, see nursing, write a note in the box.
____ lowers awareness, and ____tends to happen when awareness drops.
Denial; relapse
This card game has nine holes.
What is golf?