Triggers and Coping Skills
This is the name for any event, place, situation, or person that causes a negative emotional response.
A trigger
This long-acting opioid agonist reduces opioid craving and withdrawal and blunts or blocks the effects of opioids. Taken daily, it is available in liquid, powder and diskettes forms.
What is methadone?
Admitting powerlessness over substances is the key component to this step.
What is step 1?
Symptoms of overdose of this substance include paranoia, psychosis, dehydration and lack of sleep.
What is methamphetamine
These are the behavioral, cognitive, and environmental changes that happen to increase risk of relapse.
What are Warning Signs?
Examples of these self-soothing techniques include meditation, deep breathing, journaling, and going for a walk.
What are Coping Skills?
This medication is available either alone or in combination with Naltrexone, and is offered as either sublingual film, or tablets, or in extended-release monthly injections.
What is buprenorphine?
Often dubbed "The father of AA", this person, with the help of others, modified a way of living from the Oxford Group into the twelve steps, and is known for being one of AAs founders.
Who is Bill Wilson?
This medication is available either in an intranasal spray or as an intramuscular injection, and can reverse the chemical effects of overdose on the brain and respiratory systems
What is Narcan?
This type of technique is used to prevent relapse in the moment when substances are offered.
What are refusal skills?
Exposure to trigger situations can cause a spike in this brain chemical, setting of the fight/flight/freeze response.
What is adrenaline?
This medication helps reduce cravings, is used to combat alcohol- and opiate- use disorder, and is the active ingredient in some prescription diet medication.
What is naltrexone?
This fellowship modified it's literature and writing style from the original, making it more approachable and appealing to a new generation of people seekign recovery.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
This medication is one of the active ingredients in Narcan.
What is naloxone? or What is naltrexone?
This technique is used when an upcoming situation is unavoidable.
Action Response Planning
Stressful situations can cause these type of though processes that are out of line with reality and known as this. Examples include Catastrophizing, Jumping to Conclusions, Over-generalizing, and All-or-Nothing thinking.
What are cognitive distortions?
This medication brand name for Acomprosate is used to to curb the mental effects of alcohol withdrawal, acting on the GABA receptors in the brain, and no, it's not what you would usually find on Mass Ave.
What is Campral?
What is the Maintenence Phase?
Symptoms of this substance include blue or purple extremities, shallow breathing, and unconsciousness
What are opioids?
Experts say ______ days in treatment decrease chances of relapse of upto 50%.
What is ninety?
This form of therapy's main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others through mindfulness, acceptance, meditation and stress-tolerance.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
This brand-name for disulfuram should not be used while under the influence of alcohol, or it could cause intense nausea, vomiting, and abdominal cramping.
What is Antabuse?
Steps 4-9 involve identifying how we played a role in our own misery involve culminate in admitting our part and making amends to others, and is part of this portion of the twelve steps.
What are Action Steps?
In 2021, overdose deaths in the U.S. topped this number for the first time in history, with officials blaming the effects of the pandemic as a root cause.
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HALT to ask yourself if you're feeling one of these things.
What are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired