Acronyms
MAT
What is Medication Assisted Treatment?
Distraction, playing the tape forward, journaling, meditation, etc.
What are thought-stopping techniques?
This begins, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change..."
What is the Serenity Prayer?
This medication causes very uncomfortable symptoms when alcohol is consumed.
What is Antabuse (Disulfiram)?
This pleasure chemical in brain is released in excess during drug use.
What is Dopamine?
PAWS
What is post-acute withdrawal symptoms?
People, places, and things.
What are external triggers?
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step Two?
This medication is used in MAT for both opioid use disorder treatment and alcohol use disorder treatment.
What is Naltrexone/Vivitrol?
Someone who is abstinent from substances but has no program of recovery.
What is a dry drunk/addict?
HALT
What is hungry, angry, lonely, tired?
Emotional, mental, and physical.
What are the three stages or relapse?
This person is like a mentor in a 12-Step Fellowship and can take you through the 12-Steps of recovery.
What is a sponsor?
This is an extended-release injectable form of Buprenorphine.
What is Sublocade?
These are the three most common (non-substance specific) mutual-help fellowships/groups used by persons with substance use disorder.
What is AA, NA, and Refuge Recovery?
HOW
What is honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness?
This is the minimum recommended duration of time in treatment for the best treatment outcomes.
What is 90-days?
Greeter, Treasurer, Secretary, Chairperson, and Literature Representative.
What are AA/NA group service positions?
This medication is used in MAT for alcohol use disorder to alleviate with cravings and other PAWS. It dispensed as two 333mg tablets that are taken three times daily.
What is Campral (Acamprosate)?
This drug leads to addiction the fastest.
What is Nicotine?
RID
What is restless, irritable, and discontented?
This is the most important thing to do at the physical stage of a relapse.
What is call someone? (A friend, a loved one, a sponsor, etc. Basically, tell on yourself)
The founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who are Bill W. and Dr. Bob?
This medication used in MAT for opioid use disorder can only be dispensed at specialty drug treatment centers. It cannot be prescribed by physicians/PAs/NPs outside of these treatment centers.
What is Methadone?
This is the most commonly abused drug in the USA.
What is THC (cannabis, marijuana)?