Triggers and Coping Skills
This is the name for any event, place, situation, or person that causes a negative emotional response.
What is a trigger?
This long-acting opioid agonist reduces opioid craving and withdrawal and blunts or blocks the effects of opioids. Taken daily, it is available in liquid, powder and diskette forms.
What is methadone?
Admitting powerlessness over substances is the key component to this step.
What is step 1?
Symptoms of overdose of this substance include paranoia, psychosis, dehydration, and lack of sleep.
What is methamphetamine?
These are the behavioral, cognitive, and environmental changes that happen to increase the risk of relapse.
What are warning signs?
Examples of these self-soothing techniques include meditation, deep breathing, journaling, and going for a walk.
What is coping?
This medication is available either alone or in combination with Naltrexone, and is offered as either sublingual film, tablets, or in extended-release monthly injections.
What is buprenorphine? (Subonxone/sublicade/ subutex)
Often dubbed "The father of AA", this person, with the help of others, modified a way of living from the Oxford Group into the twelve steps, and is known for being one of AAs founders.
Who is Bill Wilson?
This medication is available either in an intranasal spray or as an intramuscular injection and can reverse the chemical effects of overdose on the brain and respiratory systems.
What is Narcan?
This type of technique is used to prevent relapse in the moment when substances are offered.
What are refusal skills?
Exposure to trigger situations can cause a spike in this brain chemical, setting off the fight/flight/freeze response.
What is adrenaline?
This medication helps reduce cravings, is used to combat alcohol and opiate use disorder. It comes in both pill and a monthly injectable form "vivitrol"
What is naltrexone?
This fellowship modified its literature and writing style from the original, making it more approachable and appealing to a new generation of people seeking recovery.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
This medication is one of the active ingredients in Narcan.
What is naloxone? or What is naltrexone?
This technique is used when an upcoming situation is unavoidable.
What is Action Response Planning?
Stressful situations can cause these types of thought processes that are out of line with reality and are known as this. Examples include: catastrophizing, jumping to conclusions, over-generalizing, and all-or-nothing thinking.
What are cognitive distortions?
Varenicline (Chantix).
What is prescription nicotine addiction medication?
A group that provides support for family members of alcoholics.
What is Al-Anon?
Symptoms of this substance overdose include blue or purple extremities, shallow breathing, and unconsciousness.
What are opioids?
Experts say x days in treatment decreases the chances of relapse by up to 50%.
What is x = 90?
This form of therapy's main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others through mindfulness, acceptance, meditation, and stress-tolerance.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
This brand-name for disulfiram should not be used while under the influence of alcohol, or it could cause intense nausea, vomiting, and abdominal cramping.
What is Antabuse?
An experienced member who guides newcomers through recovery.
What is a sponsor?
In 2021, overdose deaths in the U.S. topped this number for the first time in history, with officials blaming the effects of the pandemic as a root cause.
What is 100,000?
HALT to ask yourself if you're feeling one of these things.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired?