NEC
This is what NEC stands for.
What is New Entra Casa?
Alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamine, and opioids all affect this organ.
What is the Brain?
A person, place, feeling, thought, or situation that increases the urge to use is called this.
What is a trigger?
This well-known San Diego park provides opportunities for walking, museums, outdoor recreation, and sober activities.
What is Balboa Park?
Taking slow breaths when you're angry is an example of this.
What is a coping skill?
This Saturday activity involves everyone taking responsibility for an assigned area of the house.
What is Double Scrub?
Cocaine and methamphetamine belong to this general drug category.
What are stimulants?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired are represented by this recovery acronym.
What is HALT?
These free peer-support gatherings can be found throughout San Diego and allow people in recovery to connect with others.
What are AA, NA, or other recovery meetings?
$200: Name three healthy coping skills that don't cost money.
Walking, breathing exercises, journaling, meditation, calling someone, exercise, music, prayer, grounding, etc.
This number on a BAC test is expected when returning from an approved pass or meeting.
What is 0.00?
This brain chemical is heavily involved with reward, motivation, and reinforcement.
What is dopamine?
Name three warning signs that someone's recovery may be getting off track.
Examples include isolation, skipping meetings, dishonesty, romanticizing past use, reconnecting with high-risk people, stopping medications, increased anger, and abandoning routines.
Name three sober activities someone could do in San Diego for little or no money.
Examples include beaches, parks, hiking, walking, community events, libraries, recovery meetings, swimming, volunteering, and visiting Balboa Park.
True or false: A coping skill is only useful when you're already in crisis.
What is false?
Name three things clients can practice at NEC that can continue after discharge.
Examples include meetings, medication adherence, healthy routines, coping skills, accountability, exercise, honesty, sober recreation, asking for help, and relapse prevention.
True or false: Experiencing a craving means you have already relapsed.
What is false?
You unexpectedly run into someone you used drugs with. Give three recovery-oriented actions you could take.
Leave the situation, call a sober support, contact a sponsor, tell staff/counselor, attend a meeting, use grounding skills, or avoid exchanging contact information.
Why can finding sober activities in your own community be part of relapse prevention?
They reduce boredom and isolation, provide structure, create positive experiences, and help build a lifestyle that doesn't revolve around substances.
Someone says, "I'm overwhelmed and I just want everything to stop." Name three coping strategies they could try before making an impulsive decision.
Pause, breathe, talk with someone, take a walk, journal, ground themselves, attend a meeting, or use another established coping skill.
NEC can provide structure and support, but this person ultimately has to make the daily choices necessary for recovery.
Who is the client/myself?
Name three areas of a person's life that substance use disorder can negatively affect.
Examples include health, family, employment, finances, housing, legal involvement, mental well-being, parenting, and relationships.
Explain the difference between a trigger, craving, and relapse.
A trigger can initiate a response; a craving is an urge or desire to use; relapse involves returning to substance use.
You discharge from treatment in San Diego tomorrow. Name five resources or supports you would want established before leaving.
Examples include outpatient treatment, sober living, sponsor, meetings, mental health provider, MAT provider, PCP, transportation, probation/CWS coordination, employment/education, and supportive family or peers.
Why might a coping skill work for one person but not another?
Recovery is individualized; people have different triggers, experiences, strengths, preferences, and needs.