MAT
Medication Assisted Therapy
Medication Assisted Therapy
A prescription injectable medicine used to treat alcohol dependence and to prevent relapse to opioid use.
What is Vivitrol?
Is an important chemical messenger in the brain that has many functions. It's involved in reward, motivation, memory, attention and even regulating body movements.
What is Dopamine?
Offers recovery from the effects of addiction through working a twelve-step program, including regular attendance at group meetings. The group atmosphere provides help from peers and offers an ongoing support network for addicts who wish to pursue and maintain a drug-free lifestyle.
What is NA?
(Narcotics Anonymous)
is scientifically proven to relax the mind and has a positive effect on the physical body. Can bring you into the present moment and away from painful memories that often fuel relapse.
What is Meditation?
Is seen as anything that prompts an increase in or return of symptoms.
What is a trigger?
An oral medication used to treat alcohol dependence and prevent relapse to opioid use.
What is Revia (Naltrexone)?
the key hormone that stabilizes our mood, feelings of well-being, and happiness. This hormone impacts your entire body. It enables brain cells and other nervous system cells to communicate with each other and helps with sleeping, eating, and digestion.
What is Serotonin?
a self-empowering, free mutual support meetings focus on ideas and techniques to help you change your life from one that is self-destructive and unhappy to one that is constructive and satisfying.
What is SMART Recovery Meetings
(Self-Management and Recovery Training)
is someone who you can confide in and turn to for guidance, honesty and compassion, same as with support group meetings.
What is a sponsor?
Two types of triggers that people experience. One is environmental (person, place, or thing). The other comes from within (memory, physical sensation or emotion).
What are external and internal triggers?
Taken orally 3 times a day to help patients control the desire to drink alcohol.
What is Campril (Acamprosate)?
This brain region has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision making, and moderating social behavior.
What is the Pre-frontal Cortex?
An international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem.
What is Alcoholic Anonymous?
Naturally releases feel-good hormones and it helps you to stay healthy and happy.
What is exercise?
Refers to a physiological reaction that occurs when we are in the presence of something that is mentally or physically terrifying.
What is the fight, flight, or freeze response?
A prescription Opioid specifically for treatment of Opioid addiction, formulated to make Buprenorphine difficult to misuse.
is a complex brain structure embedded deep into temporal lobe. It has a major role in learning and memory. It is a plastic and vulnerable structure that gets damaged by a variety of stimuli.
What is Hippocampus?
Combining a somatic approach, and a cognitive approach of 12-step programs.
What is 12-step Yoga?
It will make you feel good about yourself, which is the first line of defense against a relapse. It will also help you develop a bigger and stronger network of people you can call if you need help in your recovery. And can actually lower blood pressure and chronic pain and even lengthen your life.
What is helping others?
Two physical signs that can indicate the fight, flight, or freeze response has kicked in include:
What is dilated pupils, pale or flushed skin, rapid heart rate and breathing, and trembling.
Naming any two of these or likewise physical signs are acceptable.
An injectable form of Buprenorphine designed to deliver buprenorphine at a controlled rate over a one month period.
What is Sublocade?
This part of the brain represents a core fear system in the human body, which is involved in the expression of conditioned fear.
What is Amygdala?
Is a practice, a process, a set of tools, a treatment, and a path to healing addiction and the suffering caused by addiction.
What is Refuge Recovery?
Is one of the most powerful skills to have to immerse yourself fully into successful addiction recovery.
What is being honest with yourself?
It is an honest program!
The fight, flight, or freeze response can be triggered by both real and imaginary threats.
What is true?