My Profession Is
The treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery
What is Physical Therapy?
Taking your medications as directed as prescribed.
What is Safe Use?
A type of drug that comes from the resin of the poppy plant.
What are opioids?
NSAIDs, Acetaminophen, and antidepressants
What are alternatives to opioid pain medications?
Opioids bind to receptors in the brain and spinal cord, disrupting pain signals
What is FACT?
A profession that focuses on the human response to health and illness.
What is Nursing?
Keeping medications locked and out of reach of children and visitors to your home
What is Safe Storage?
This drug is considered a natural opiate.
What is morphine?
Type of pain management that involves breathing and a focus on calmness
What is meditation or relaxation techniques or visual imagery or guided imagery?
Opioids have a role in providing short-term pain relief
What is FACT?
Ensures the right drug gets to the right patient safely.
What is a Pharmacist?
Permanent medication collection receptacles and Drug Take-Back Days/Events
What is Safe Disposal?
This is commonly abused type of street opioid
What is heroin?
Focuses on tensing, then relaxing, muscles and muscle groups
What is progressive relaxation?
Opioids are helpful in establishing good sleep quality
What is FICTION?
Instructs people on energy conservation and body mechanics to reduce pain during dressing or bathing
What is Occupational Therapy?
They haunt the bathrooms and medicine cabinets of America
What is Unused, unwanted, and out-of-date medicines and prescription drugs?
This drug can be used to reverse a potentially fatal overdose of opioids?
What is naloxone?
Teaches control over muscle tension, temperature, heart rate and other body functions
What is biofeedback?
Continued use of prescribed opioids can result in abuse and addiction
What is FACT?
A highly trained, licensed professional who assists individuals, families, and larger systems in changing underlying patterns, cognitive distortions, and emotional dysregulation that underlies and sustains substance abuse
What is a Marriage and Family Therapist?
What should you do if you feel like you or someone you know is becoming addicted to opioids
What is talk to a healthcare provider?
Some non-medication alternatives to opioids?
What is Biofeedback, CBT, meditation, exercise etc
An evidence based psychotherapeutic treatment for opioid and other types of addiction
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Naloxone is available as an injection or nasal spray to treat overdoses
What is FACT?