Co-occuring Disorders
This term describes when a person has both a substance use disorder and another mental health disorder at the same time.
What is a co-occurring disorder?
These three FDA‑approved medications are used as long‑term treatment for opioid use disorder and include one full agonist, one partial agonist, and one antagonist.
According to the disease model, addiction is considered this type of medical condition, similar in course to illnesses like diabetes or hypertension, because it can last a long time and often involves periods of remission and relapse.
What is a chronic medical condition?
This therapy targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, teaching skills like identifying thinking errors, coping with cravings, and planning high‑risk situations.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This mood disorder, marked by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and changes in sleep and appetite, is one of the most common conditions seen alongside substance use disorders.
People with this mood disorder, marked by episodes of mania/hypomania and depression, have higher rates of substance use disorders than the general population.
“What is bipolar disorder?”
These two medications are considered first‑line pharmacotherapy options for alcohol use disorder and have the strongest evidence for improving drinking‑related outcomes.
What are naltrexone and acamprosate?
In the brain disease model, addiction develops over time from initially voluntary use to compulsive use, largely because of these persistent changes in ______ structure and function.
What is neurobiological (brain)?
This kind of therapy uses structured strategies like behavioral chain analysis, distress‑tolerance skills, and emotion regulation; it was first developed for people with high emotional sensitivity and self‑harm.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and phobias all fall under this broad category of mental health conditions that frequently co‑occur with substance use disorders.
What are Anxiety Disorders?
This kind of treatment approach coordinates mental health care and addiction services together, often in the same team or program, instead of sending the person to two separate systems.
What is holistic or integrated treatment?
This alcohol‑sensitivity drug causes people to feel very sick (flushing, nausea, palpitations) if they drink alcohol while taking it.
What is Antabuse (Disulfiram)?
The disease model still recognizes that these non‑biological factors interact with genetics and brain circuits to shape vulnerability to addiction.
What are social and environmental factors?
This collaborative treatment plan component lists a person’s early warning signs, high‑risk situations, coping skills, support contacts, and crisis steps in writing.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This mood disorder involves episodes of mania or hypomania and depression, and has particularly high rates of co‑occurring substance use disorders, especially with alcohol and stimulants.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This term describes using alcohol or other drugs to try to cope with, numb, or escape from symptoms like anxiety, depression, or trauma.
What is self-medicating?
This term refers to using medications like methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone along with counseling and behavioral therapies as a comprehensive approach to opioid use disorder treatment.
What is Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
Critics sometimes argue that the brain disease model overemphasizes this feature—common but not universal—of addiction’s course, even though many people ultimately achieve remission.
What is its chronic, relapsing nature?
This approach to substance use treatment looks at the “whole person” and may include things like nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, spiritual practices, and creative activities alongside traditional therapies and medications.
What is holistic treatment?
Marked by unstable relationships, intense emotions, fear of abandonment, and impulsive behavior, this personality disorder often co‑occurs with substance use and self‑harm.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This term describes a mental health or substance use diagnosis that is directly caused by the effects of a substance (like intoxication or withdrawal), and can look very similar to a primary disorder such as major depression or an anxiety disorder.
What is a substance-induced disorder?
Studies show that those with Opioid Use Disorder who receive opiate replacement medications like buprenorphine or methadone are at lower risk of ____ and ____ than those who do not.
What is overdose and death?
The brain disease model of addiction emphasizes that repeated substance use produces long‑lasting changes in brain circuits involved in _____, ______, and _____.
What are reward, stress, and self-control?
This evidence‑based counseling approach focuses on exploring and resolving ambivalence about change, using open questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries to strengthen a person’s own motivation.
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
This personality disorder, associated with disregard for others’ rights, rule‑breaking, and lack of remorse, is also frequently found alongside substance use disorders, especially in forensic and treatment settings.
What is Anti-social Personality Disorder?