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This is the most commonly used legal psychoactive substance in the world.
What is caffeine?
This popular 12-step program helps individuals recover from alcohol addiction.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
This category of drugs includes heroin, morphine, and prescription painkillers.
What are opioids?
People go to these daily or weekly to get support.
What are meetings?
True or False:
Substance use rose considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic.
True
True or false:
Grief only happens when an individual dies.
False.
What is the first step toward getting help?
Admitting you have a problem.
What does MAT stand for?
Medication-Assisted Treatment
True or false:
Triggers are always obvious.
False.
This feeling often comes after hurting someone else.
What is guilt?
This feeling can make people yell, slam things, or shut down.
What is anger?
This healthy physical habit helps your brain and body feel better.
What is exercise?
What is the brand name for naloxone?
Narcan.
This class of medications, including methadone and buprenorphine, is used to treat opioid addiction.
What is MAT?
This is a ceremony you have at the end of your time completing the program.
What is the coin ceremony.
What is a substitute addiction?
Replacing one addiction with another.
This is a plan created to maintain sobriety and avoid relapse.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This practice focuses on acknowledging small successes in recovery.
What is gratitude?
This skill involves treating yourself with kindness instead of self-criticism.
What is self-compassion?
This term describes a slip in recovery, but not a full return to old patterns.
What is a lapse?
What four things are needed to break the shame and denial cycle?
Awareness, Self-Compassion, Honesty, Connection
This is the medical term for needing more of a substance to feel the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Physical activity helps reduce cravings by releasing these chemicals.
What are endorphins?
Cravings typically peak and fall within this amount of time.
What is 20–30 minutes?
This natural chemical messenger helps regulate mood and is often affected by substance use.
What is serotonin?
What is a grounding technique that involves naming 5 things you can see, 4 you can feel, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
What is a cover emotion?
A secondary, often more intense emotion like anger or frustration that masks a more vulnerable or primary emotion.
_____ is the feeling that something is wrong with you as a person.
What is shame?
This syndrome occurs when a person stops using a drug after becoming dependent.
What is withdrawal?
Substance use may begin as an attempt to do this with overwhelming mental health symptoms.
What is self-medicate?
This term describes a long-term process of change aimed at improving health and wellness after addiction.
What is recovery?
This stress hormone often spikes during withdrawal and can increase relapse risk.
What is cortisol?
This type of trigger comes from inside a person, such as emotions or thoughts.
What is an internal trigger?
____ lowers awareness, and ____tends to happen when awareness drops.
Denial; relapse
This type of grief occurs when someone doesn’t have the chance to fully process a loss or when their grief keeps getting interrupted.
What is complicated grief/unresolved grief?