Substance Use / Treatment Facts
chronic (lifelong) condition that involves compulsive seeking and taking of a substance or performing of an activity despite negative or harmful consequences.
What is addiction?
Name External Triggers
What is Person, Place, or Thing?
This actor, known for his role in the Marvel Universe, has publicly shared his struggle with addiction and his recovery journey
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
Define H.A.L.T
Name the founders of AA
Bill W and Dr. Bob Smith
Name at least two things that can contribute to a substance use disorder
What is genetics, social and/or cultural values, mental health, stress, trauma, environment, etc.
A thought, feeling, emotion, or memory that can contribute to substance use
What is Internal Triggers?
This American rapper openly reflected on substance use and recovery in his music before his death in 2018.
Who is Mac Miller?
Idea that our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions are all connected and influence one another
What is CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)?
What is it called when someone has a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder
What is co-occurring disorders?
A neurotransmitter that is associated with reward-motivated behavior, pleasure, motivation, memory, and motor control
What is dopamine?
Types of Triggers: External, Internal and __________
What is sensory?
This rapper, singer, and songwriter shares his struggles with addiction and incarceration to inspire others, and has even testified before the US Senate about the fentanyl crisis
Who is Jelly Roll?
Name the 3 D's
What is Delay, Distract, Decide
What is redirecting emotions from the original source to a safer target?
What is displacement?
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
Identify, Avoid, Interrupt, Talk about it
What are ways to deal/cope with triggers?
This Grammy-winning rapper battled a prescription painkiller addiction. He has openly talked about his struggle with addiction between 2002-2008.
Who is Marshall Mathers/Eminem?
Thinking through the potential consequences (whether positive or negative) of a decision
What is playing the tape all the way through?
What is a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feeling, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique
What is mindfulness?
Name the Stages of Change
What is Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance?
True or False: Dealing with a trigger = relapse
What is False?
This Disney Channel star and singer/songwriter first entered treatment in 2010 and has publicly detailed their struggles with alcohol, cocaine, relapse, and overdose through a YouTube docuseries called Dancing With the Devil.
Who is Demi Lovato?
This is something useful to do, but most people don't like to do it because it involves being able to be vulnerable
What is Asking for Help?
Name at least 3 of the common cognitive distortions
Magnification and Minimization, Catastrophizing, Overgeneralization, Magical Thinking, Personalization, Jumping to Conclusions, Mind Reading, Fortune Telling, Emotional Reasoning, Disqualifying the Positive, "Should" Statements, All or Nothing Thinking