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A place where a homeless individual can go for transitional housing
What is the Lewis Center?
This is used along with counseling and social support to help people who have stopped drinking alcohol and using street drugs continue to avoid drinking or using drugs.
Medical care that helps a person with addiction stop using drugs completely.
What is addiction treatment?
A class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally by prescription.
What are opioids?
A chronic brain disorder in which a person compulsively uses drugs or alcohol despite negative consequences.
What is addiction?
A city in Palm Beach County that has its own reentry program
What is the Riviera Beach Reentry Program?
A medication used to reverse an opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone?
The process of letting the body remove the drugs in it. The purpose is to safely manage withdrawal symptoms.
What is (drug) detox?
Medications that can relieve pain from surgery or injuries. They are in the same class of drugs as heroin and can also be addictive.
What are Prescription Opioids?
A process of change people with addiction go through to improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential.
What is recovery?
A team whose members go to places throughout the county where homeless people are known to congregate
What is the Homeless Outreach Team?
A brand name for a combination medication with two primary active components: buprenorphine and naloxone. It is available as a dissolvable film that can be placed either under the tongue or inside the cheek.
What is suboxone?
Facilities that provide safe housing and supportive, structured living conditions for people exiting drug rehabilitation programs.
What are sober homes/halfway houses/sober living?
A powerful opioid, 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, that is prescribed for severe pain.
What is fentanyl?
Interventions intended to prevent or reduce the risk of developing a health problem, like a substance use disorder.
What is prevention?
An organization that provides low barrier recovery community organization that provides recovery support services, education, and advocacy to people impacted by drug use and those living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS. Hint: One of our OD2A partners!
What is Rebel Recovery?
This is the first medication to treat OUD that can be prescribed or dispensed in physician offices, significantly increasing access to treatment. Hint: A component of Suboxone.
What is Buprenorphine?
Treatment programs used to address addictions, depression, eating disorders, or other dependencies that do not require detoxification or round-the-clock supervision.
What is a IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program)?
An opioid made from morphine, which comes from poppy plants.
What is heroin?
An electronic database that tracks controlled substance prescriptions in a state.
What are Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs)?
An organization that promotes violence-free relationships and social change by offering alternative choices to end violence and domestic abuse.
What is AVDA?
This is a long-acting opioid agonist, reduces opioid craving and withdrawal and blunts or blocks the effects of opioids. It must be taken daily and is available in liquid, powder and diskettes forms.
What is methadone?
A program that provides intensive care for individuals struggling with substance use disorders without requiring them to live at a treatment facility.
What is a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)?
Also known as “opioids,” the term “narcotic” comes from the Greek word for “stupor” and originally referred to a variety of substances that dulled the senses and relieved pain.
What are narcotics?
Supports jurisdictions in collecting high quality, comprehensive, and timely data on nonfatal and fatal overdoses and in using those data to inform prevention and response efforts.