Neurons, Drugs, and Medications
This term describes the physiological and/or psychological symptoms someone might experience after abruptly stopping their substance use.
Withdrawal
This evidence-based treatment calls for the use of incentives to reinforce pro-recovery behaviors.
Contingency Management
Sound the alarms! This psychometric quality is emphasized in tools that don’t want to risk someone with a dangerous condition falling through the cracks.
Sensitivity
This pharmacokinetic term estimates how long it takes for the body to metabolize a particular substance.
Half-life
This term describes the lingering psychological symptoms someone might experience even months after initiating abstinence from a substance they were dependent on.
Post Acute Withdrawal (Protracted Withdrawal
This model, used to categorize levels of motivation, proposes that certain therapy goals should shift depending on how motivated a client is to change. Interestingly, the “12-steps” of Alcoholics Anonymous follow a similar sequence from start to finish.
The Transtheoretical Model of Change
Concerned family members, law enforcement officers, and physicians can all initiate this process in Massachusetts. It can be found in this section of chapter 123 in Massachusetts General Law.
Section 35
This term describes the relationship between the number of substances one is addicted to and the presence of co-occurring disorders. Simply put: more drugs = more comorbidities.
Dose-Response Relationship
This is the act of using two or more substances in a short time window, sometimes resulting in dangerous effects.
Concurrent Substance Use
This model identifies withdrawal, tolerance, salience, and a few others as distinguishing features of addictions.
Components Model
The University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale (URICA) measures motivation and attempts to assign an examinee to a single category from this dynamic model.
Stages of Change
For the treatment of addictions, research suggests that these counseling groups might be more effective than those that focus exclusively on education.
Process Group
This term describes the relationship between two substances that magnify each other’s effects when used together.
Superadditive (Potentiating)
This stage describes an individual who has not yet committed to making a change about their substance use, although they are increasingly aware of problems introduced by their addiction.
Contemplation
This level of care is more intense and is usually considered for individuals with drug dependencies that could produce serious, or even lethal, symptoms if they abruptly abstain from use.
Medically Supervised Detox
These groups for people in recovery are not led by a trained clinician. Instead, participants of these groups are peers looking for support and to support one another in their challenges with addictions.
Mutual help Groups
These two substances combine into a new, riskier psychoactive compound if used together.
Alcohol and Cocaine
Although there are some limitations to this theory, research supports the idea that substance use can activate preexisting vulnerabilities to certain mental health conditions. This results in somebody becoming symptomatic or even developing a diagnosable mental health disorder after substance use has started.
Hypersensitivity Theory
This specifier in the DSM-5TR is used to identify an individual with a substance use disorder who is currently taking a replacement medication.
On Maintenance Therapy
This level of prevention doesn’t target any individuals based on symptoms or risk, rather, it focuses on making the environment incompatible with the outcome to be prevented.
Primordial