Opioids
This type of opioid is prescribed by a physician to treat pain such as recovering from surgery, chronic pain, cancer treatment, and end-of-life care.
What are prescription opioids?
Stimulants are typically misused because people want to experience this.
What is a “rush” of euphoria?
The number of YEC members in KARS.
How many is twelve (12)?
The definition of harm reduction.
What is a strategy that engages people who use drugs by providing them with life-saving tools to reduce harm?
The type of recovery treatment service in which individuals participate in a one-on-one setting with a counselor.
What is individual therapy?
Name one synthetic opioid.
What is Fentanyl, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Codeine, Morphine, Methadone, or Buprenorphine?
Prescription stimulants are medications prescribed for [blank] and [blank].
What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy?
The meaning of the acronym YEC.
What is Youth Empowerment Council?
Harm reduction prevents this.
What is death, injury, disease, overdose, and substance misuse?
The type of treatment encourages the stop of stimulant use by providing rewards for healthier behaviors, such as sobriety.
What is contingency management?
Name an illicit (illegal) opioid.
What is heroin?
Name an illicit (illegal) stimulant.
What is methamphetamine and cocaine?
The meaning of the acronym KARS.
What is Koreatown Access to Recovery Services?
An example of harm reduction tools for substance use.
What is naloxone, fentanyl test strips, sharps disposal, new and clean needles, safer smoking kits?
The type of treatment strengthens an individual's values and helps them succeed with their goals.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This mental condition is known by the compulsion to use opioids even when the drugs affect their wellbeing.
What is Opioid Use Disorder?
This mental condition is known by the compulsion to use stimulants event the drugs affect their wellbeing.
What is Stimulant Use Disorder?
The names of the other two KYCC units that KARS works with?
What is KYCC's Recovery Services and Koreatown Storytelling Program?
True or False: harm reduction makes people use more drugs.
What is false?
The type of treatment that supports individuals in maintaining abstinence from drugs through a dozen steps.
What is a 12-Step Program?
Name two signs/symptoms of an opioid overdose.
What is face is pale/clammy to the touch, body is limp, fingernails/lips are purple, gurgling noises, slow breathing, and pin-point pupils?
Name two signs/symptoms of a stimulant overdose?
What are dilated pupils, confusion, dizziness, nausea, rapid breathing, fast heart rate, overheating, chest pain, anxiety, hallucinations, psychosis, seizures?
The name of the major KARS event that occurred in 2024 at MacArthur Park.
What is "El Mercadito Magico (EMM)" event?
The five steps in administering naloxone.
What is 1) check for signs of opioid overdose, 2) administer naloxone, 3) call 9-1-1, 4) watch and repeat, and 5) stay?
The type of treatment known as a worldwide fellowship for individuals to meet anonymously in a group setting and support one another through SUD recovery.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?