Science and the Brain
Major medical organizations classify addiction as this type of condition.
What is A Disease
This treatment combines FDA-approved medication with counseling.
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
This is one thing you can do every day to help maintain your recovery.
What is attending meetings, using coping skills, or contacting sober supports?
This is a person, place, thing, feeling, or situation that can increase the desire to use substances.
What is a trigger?
This term describes the process of stopping or reducing substance use and experiencing physical or emotional symptoms as the body adjusts.
What is Withdrawal
This neurotransmitter is heavily involved in the brain's reward system.
What is Dopamine
Groups like AA, SMART Recovery, and NA provide this important recovery benefit.
What is peer support and connection?
This helps provide structure, responsibility, and stability in your recovery.
What is maintaining a healthy daily routine?
These are two types of triggers that can lead to cravings.
What are internal and external triggers?
This occurs when a person needs increasing amounts of a substance to experience the same effect.
What is tolerance?
The brain's ability to heal and create new pathways during recovery is called this.
What is Neuroplasticity?
People who use their own recovery experience to guide others are called these.
What are Peer Recovery Coaches (or Peer Support Specialists)?
These are people who can provide encouragement, accountability, and guidance in recovery.
What are sponsors and sober supports?
This is a strong desire or urge to use drugs or alcohol that can occur even after a period of sobriety.
What is a craving?
This medication is commonly known by the brand name Narcan and is used to rapidly reverse an opioid overdose.
What is naloxone?
Genetics account for approximately this percentage of addiction vulnerability.
What is 40%–60%?
This approach focuses on keeping people alive and reducing harm, even if they are not ready to stop using.
What is harm reduction?
This is what you should do when you begin noticing warning signs that your recovery may be at risk.
What is reaching out for support and increasing recovery activities?
These are healthy actions you can take when experiencing a craving instead of using substances.
What are using coping skills
This term describes having both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder at the same time.
What is a co-occurring disorder?
This part of the brain helps regulate judgment, planning, and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Recovery is often described using these four dimensions: Health, Home, Purpose, and this final one.
What is Community?
This is a written tool that identifies your triggers, warning signs, coping skills, and people you can contact when your recovery is at risk.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This acronym is commonly used in recovery to identify four conditions that can increase vulnerability to cravings: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired.
What is HALT?
This term describes when a person continues using drugs or alcohol despite experiencing harmful consequences in their life.
What is Addiction