Recovery
Addiction is a disease of this body part.
What is the brain?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
This enhances the effectiveness of medications used for MAT.
What is counseling, group therapy, group education?
Never consume alcohol while on this medication.
What is Disulfiram/Antabuse?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco?
The diminishing effect if a drug after repeated use.
What is tolerance?
Ther term used when an individual has both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder
What is a Co-occuring disorder?
Approved medication for treating opioid use disorder in pregnant women.
Subutex
(Can you tell me why?)
This medication is given as a monthly injection to treat alcohol use disorder.
What is Vivitrol?
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is Alcohol?
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger?
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gambler's Anonymous are all examples of programs with this type of format that can support you in recovery.
What are 12-Step Fellowships?
The two goals of treating a biological disorder with medication.
1. Interfere with drug reward
2. Target specific imbalances
The number of approved medications for treating alcohol dependence.
(Can you name them?)
This 12-Step Fellowship has more than 120,000 groups in more than 175 countries around the world, with more than 2 million members.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
One of the primary neurotransmitters in the experience of pleasure and the maintenance of addiction
Some high-risk situations to avoud are not let yourself get too hungry, angery, lonely, or tired. What can help you remember these circumstances?
What is
1.Ease the symptoms of withdrawal
2. Aid in the maintenance of changes
3. Stabilize comorbid disorders
What is GABA and Glutamate?
Up to this percentage of patients who use MAT maintain sobriety at the 2-year mark.
What is 90%?
Common in early recovery, _____ is the inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things.
What is Anhedonia?
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Approved medications for opioid use disorder.
What are buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone?
The way Naltrexone works in the brain,
What is interfering with dopamine transmission and diminishes the perceived reinforcing effects of alcohol?
What is 50% or more?