Coping Skills
This coping skill involves focusing on the present moment, often through breathing exercises or meditation
What is mindfulness?
This class of drugs includes substances like heroin, morphine, and oxycodone.
What are opioids?
This term refers to the process of identifying potential triggers and developing strategies to avoid them.
What is relapse prevention planning?
What does MAT stand for?
Medication Assisted treatment
This term refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions.
What is emotional intelligence?
This coping strategy involves reaching out to friends, family, or professionals for support during difficult times
What is seeking social support?
The medication often used to reverse opioid overdoses, saving thousands of lives every year.
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
This relapse prevention strategy involves creating a list of activities to engage in when experiencing cravings or urges to use substances.
What is developing a list of coping skills?
The program that provides medications like methadone or buprenorphine alongside counseling and support for individuals recovering from opioid addiction.
What is medication-assisted treatment (MAT)?
This type of goal involves setting a specific target or milestone to achieve within a certain timeframe.
What is a short-term goal?
This coping skill involves engaging in physical activity to reduce stress and improve mood.
What is exercise?
This term refers to the condition where an individual requires increasing doses of opioids to achieve the same effect.
What is opioid tolerance?
This aspect of relapse prevention emphasizes the importance of building a supportive network of individuals who can provide encouragement and accountability.
What is social support?
This medication, commonly used in MAT programs, helps reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms in individuals with opioid use disorder.
What is methadone?
This term refers to the process of overcoming substance use disorders and reclaiming one's health and well-being
What is recovery?
This method involves setting small, achievable goals to regain a sense of control and accomplishment.
What is goal setting?
This neurotransmitter is heavily involved in the brain's reward system and is targeted by opioids.
What is dopamine?
This relapse prevention strategy involves avoiding situations, people, or places associated with substance use.
What is avoiding high-risk situations?
This term refers to the process of gradually reducing the dosage of medication in a MAT program.
What is tapering?
This aspect of recovery involves developing and maintaining meaningful relationships and social networks that support recovery.
What is building a supportive social network?
This technique involves intentionally redirecting one's attention away from distressing thoughts or situations.
What is distraction?
The term for the intense, unpleasant physical and psychological symptoms experienced when discontinuing opioid use.
What is opioid withdrawal?
This relapse prevention skill involves practicing self-care activities that promote overall well-being and reduce stress
What is self-care?
This approach to MAT involves using medications to stabilize individuals in early recovery, followed by a gradual tapering off medication as they progress in their recovery journey.
What is a medically supervised withdrawal or detoxification program?
This aspect of recovery involves taking responsibility for one's actions and choices and making positive changes to support recovery.
What is personal responsibility?