Basic of Recovery
_________ is a primary, chronic, neurobiological disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestation.
What is Addiction?
A person who exhibits impaired control over engaging in substance use (or other reward-seeking behavior, such as gambling) despite suffering severe harms caused by such activity.
What is an Addict?
Combines medications with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat substance use disorders, particularly opioid use disorder. It helps restore balance to the brain and improves recovery outcomes by addressing both the physical and psychological aspects of addiction. Common medications used include buprenorphine, naltrexone and methadone, among others.
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
The leaves, flowers, stems and seeds of this plant can produce altered senses and perceptions of time, changes in mood and appetite, pain relief, impaired body movement, impaired problem-solving and memory, and at high doses, hallucinations, delusions, and psychosis.
What is Marijuana? (aka Weed, Pot etc.)
Physical, cognitive, and affective symptoms that occur after chronic use of a drug is reduced abruptly or stopped among individuals who have developed tolerance to a drug.
What is Withdrawal?
The absence of substance use. When a person isn't using, they are said to be practicing __________
What is Abstinence?
This is the tendency of addicted individuals to either disavow or distort variables associated with their drinking or drug use in spite of evidence to the contrary.
What is a Denial?
A time-limited, intensive, clinical service that is often medically monitored but is a step in intensity below inpatient hospitalization.
What is Partial Hospitalization (PHP)?
Excessive alcohol consumption within a short time period.
According to NIAAA, ____ ______ is any alcohol consumption that results in a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level of 0.08 or higher (usually achieved after 4 drinks for women and 5 drinks for men within a 2-hour period).
According to SAMHSA, ______ ______ is 4 or more alcoholic drinks for women and 5 or more alcoholic drinks for men within a short amount of time.
What is Binge Drinking?
An opioid antagonist, similar to Naltrexone, that works by blocking opioid receptors in the brain, thereby blocking the effects of opioid agonists (e.g., heroin, morphine). It has poor bio-availability when taken sublingually. It has a high affinity to the mu opioid receptor, yet not as high of an affinity as buprenorphine, at the mu receptor. It is often used to combat opioid overdoses.
What is Naloxone/Narcan?
An intense euphoric feeling experienced by some individuals in early recovery from substance use disorder in which the patient experiences highly positive and optimistic sentiments.
What is Pink Cloud?
Immoderate emotional or psychological reliance on a partner. Often used with regard to a partner requiring support due to an illness or disease (e.g. substance use disorder).
What is Co-Dependency?
A prevalent type of talk therapy (psychotherapy) that involves working with a professional to increase awareness of inaccurate or negative thinking and behavior and to learn to implement new coping strategies.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
A stimulant drug derived from the leaves of a plant, that activates the reward centers of the brain to produce sensations of extreme happiness and energy, increased mental alertness, hypersensitivity to sight, sound, and touch, irritability or anxiety, constricted blood vessels, dilated pupils, nausea, tremors and muscle twitches, rapid and/or irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure and body temperature.
What is Cocaine?
A practice in pharmacotherapy of lowering the dose of medication incrementally over time to help prevent or reduce any adverse experiences as the patients’ body makes adjustments and adapts to lower and lower doses.
What is Tapering/Taper?
A short-term resumption of substance use or heavy/hazardous use (e.g., for a night or a day) that is followed by a return to the original goal of moderate use or abstinence.
What is a Lapse or Slip?
Actions that typically involve removing or diminishing the naturally occurring negative consequences resulting from substance use, increasing the likelihood of disease progression.
What is Enabling?
An empirically supported psychosocial treatment for borderline personality disorder, that utilizes a skills-based approach to teach mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.
A synthetic analog of an illegal drug, devised to circumvent drug laws through changes to chemical compounds.
What is Designer Drug?
A semisynthetic opioid to control moderate to severe pain and to treat opioid use disorder. This medication administered by injection to control pain, is used in the form of a transdermal skin patch to control pain or treat opioid use disorder and is used alone or in combination with naloxone in the form of a dissolvable tablet placed under the tongue or film placed inside the cheek to treat opioid use disorder. More commonly known as Suboxone or Subutex.
What is Buprenorphine?
Five years of continued remission, when risk of relapse equals that of the general population.
A derisory term describing a member of a 12-step program who makes romantic advances toward new, or newer, members of those organizations, who typically have less than one year of recovery.
What is Thirteenth-Stepping?
A clinical approach that helps people with mental health and substance use disorders and other chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, and asthma make positive behavioral changes to support better health by helping them to explore and resolve ambivalence about changes.
A type of medication and class of compounds that are central nervous system depressants causing sedation and sleep. These medications have been replaced largely by benzodiazepines because they are less toxic and benzodiazepines have lower potential for overdose risk. Barbiturates are still sometimes used medically, however, as anticonvulsants (e.g., phenobarbital).
What is Barbiturates?
A _______ injection is an injection of medication that is intended to gradually disperse its therapeutic contents into the human body over a number of weeks. In the case of substance use disorders (e.g., opioid or alcohol use disorder), this can reduce problems with medication adherence as medications are more typically taken on a daily schedule and orally. The most common medications used are naltrexone & buprenorphine
What is a Depot Injection?