Drug People
Psychiatrist Anna Lembke uses cartoons to explain the pleasure/pain balance in her popular book with this title.
What is Dopamine Nation?
This acronym refers to an approach to treating SUD that involves seeing an MD or PMHNP – it also sounds like something you’d use in yoga class.
What is MAT?
Naltrexone, an intramuscular extended-release drug, is used to treat these two substance use disorders
What are AUD and OUD?
This hotline was created as a harm reduction measure to be used with people who inject opioid drugs.
What is Never Use Alone?
The greater and faster a drug causes the release of this neurotransmitter, the more addictive the drug.
What is dopamine?
This author is herself a recovering person and has written extensively about the benefits of harm reduction, including the book Undoing Drugs.
Who is Maia Szalavitz?
A step-down level of care from residential treatment that allows the client to sleep at home but attend treatment during the day.
What is PHP or IOP?
Disulfiram, also known by this brand name, causes severe vomiting when combined with alcohol.
What is Antabuse?
These three levels constitute the severity continuum for an SUD in the DSM-5.
What are mild, moderate and severe?
The official volume of a drink of wine is this many ounces.
What is 5 ounces?
Guest speakers Johanna Loya and Jerry Cypert are UT counselors with the SUST team which stands for this.
What is Substance Use Support Team?
Though SBIRT recommends giving a client a menu of options at the end of an SUD screening, the R and the T stand for this.
What are referral to treatment?
Because this agonist drug is slow acting and reduces cravings, it is considered the “gold standard” for OUD treatment.
What is methadone?
Used in MI, these rulers allow a counselor to gauge a client’s readiness change.
What are importance and confidence?
Colloquial term that refers to predatory sexual behavior within recovery support groups.
What is 13th step or 13th stepping?
Guest speaker Courtney Stollon is an LCSW, an LCDC and this 5-letter licensure abbreviation, denoting a special type of nurse.
What is PMHNP or psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
The I in AUDIT stands for this word – it’s also a word for something most people carry in their wallet.
What is identification?
Because Narcan “binds and blocks” at a cellular receptor site causing immediate overdose reversal, it is known as a drug with this mechanism of action.
What is an antagonist?
This MI activity can reveal a client’s priorities and help them take action – just don’t skip the shuffling!
What is the values card sort?
Inpatient rehab is based on this abstinence-only approach developed in the 1940s as an alternative to existing alcoholism treatment methods – it’s real “nice.”
What is the Minnesota Model?
In the 1970s, alcoholism researchers Sobell & Sobell found that controlled drinking resulted in positive outcomes, paving the way for this new approach to substance use disorders.
What is non-abstinence treatment?
To better represent medical reality, MAT is increasingly being replaced by MOUD and MAUD which stands for these two terms.
What are medications for OUD and medications for AUD?
When combined with naloxone, this partial agonist drug cannot be melted and injected.
What is buprenorphine?
Allowed to be prescribed and purchased at a pharmacy, this drug for treating OUD is an example of the low barrier care model of treatment.
What is buprenorphine?
The brand name of the drug that contains both buprenorphine and naloxone.
What is Suboxone?