Coping Skills
This coping skill encourages you to accept a situation or emotion without judging it.
What is Radical Acceptance?
These are the only two substances which can cause death via withdrawal.
What are alcohol and benzodiazepines?
This is the word for the body's need to consume more and more of the same substance to get the same effect after repeated use.
What is tolerance?
This is the name of a treatment strategy that utilizes medication to reduce cravings and urges to use substances.
What is Medication Assisted Therapy or MAT?
These are the three stages of core groups offered at CASA-Trinity.
What is Early Recovery (ER), Personal Recovery Skills (PRS), and Life Skills Relapse Prevention (LSRP)?
This set of coping skills are used in times of extreme stress or overwhelming emotion to bring you back to the present.
What is grounding?
This is a tranquilizer commonly found in street drugs whose effects cannot be reversed by Narcan.
What is Xylazine?
This is the word used to describe the biological effects of being under the influence of alcohol or other substances.
What is intoxication?
This is the active compound in medication that is commonly used to treat opioid use disorder.
What is buprenorphine?
This is the stage of recovery you are in when you have been sober for 3-4 months.
What is early remission?
This coping skill encourages you to experience emotions without acting on them.
What is Urge Surfing or Ride the Wave?
This is how many times more potent carfentanil is than fentanyl.
What is 100X?
This is the neurotransmitter commonly associated with substance use.
What is dopamine?
This is a medication that can be used to treat alcohol use disorder and opioid dependence.
What is naltrexone?
This is the stage of recovery you are in when you have been sober for 1 year or longer.
What is sustained remission?
This DBT concept encourages you to use both logic and emotions in decision making.
What is Wise Mind?
This is how many people a year die from overdose.
What is 68,600?
This is the part of the brain most commonly associated with reduction of decision-making skills in substance use.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
These are the chemical names of substances that 1. activate a receptor and produce an effect and 2. block a receptor and prevent an effect
What are 1. agonists and 2. antagonists?
These are the stages of recovery.
What is pre-contemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance?
This is a relaxation strategy used to reduce stress in the body and mind.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?
This is the percentage of individuals with a SU disorder that also have a MH disorder.
What is 37.9%?
These is the name of the symptoms you experience several weeks or months after you have finished detoxing that are related to the body healing from substance use.
What is Post-acute Withdrawal?
This is the name of the chemical category (not drug class) buprenorphine is in.
What is a partial agonist?
These are the components of the cycle of substance use.
What is Emotional Trigger > Craving > Ritual > Use > Guilt?