Opiate Addiction: Strategies for Creating Long-Term Sobriety & Increasing Treatment Adherence
Introduction
This webinar offers an in-depth look at the unique challenges individuals with an opiate addiction face in achieving and maintaining sobriety. It explores the physical, emotional, and social barriers that complicate recovery, such as stigma, relapse risk, and limited access to care, while highlighting how these factors play out in real-world situations.
The session also presents evidence-based strategies to support long-term recovery, providing practical tools to improve treatment outcomes and strengthen client engagement. It covers ways to reduce the risk of leaving treatment early by focusing on early intervention, personalized care, and sustained support, helping participants better understand how to support those struggling with opiate addiction.
Foundations Recovery Network also has a large playlist of webinars.
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"The number of unintentional overdose deaths from prescription pain relievers in the United States has more than quadrupled since 1999."
"The United States is the biggest consumer of prescription opiates, accounting for almost 100% of the world total for hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin) and 81% for oxycodone (e.g., Percocet)."
"By 2010, the number of pain medications prescribed was enough to keep every single American medicated for one month's time."
"Opiates create a sense of pleasure and well-being and, as so many people say, the euphoric feeling is extremely pleasing."
"What we are trying to do in recovery is help people find healthy ways of getting a dopamine release."
"It starts off with drug use then the person has cravings for more. They engage in desperate behaviours, leading to feelings of shame and guilt. This is painful and the person turns to drugs to cope with those painful feelings. So, it becomes a vicious cycle."
"Opiate addiction is defined as a chronic relapsing disease caused by changes in the brain and characterized by uncontrollable drug seeking no matter the consequences."
"People end up doing things they would never normally do. The frontal cortex decreases in functioning, so you don't have the reasoning skills, and the desire to get the drug feels as if it's life or death. It becomes survival and then leads to increased shame and guilt."
"I believe that the best outcomes are when individuals can get long-term treatment and that in treatment clients need structure to help them learn impulse control and self-regulation. It takes time to get clarity of thought because the brain has been hijacked."
"Many residential and inpatient facilities are using EMDR and other strategies to address issues of trauma, but often times individuals are just not ready to address that trauma during the first 30 days of treatment."
"A huge part of helping individuals maintain long-term sobriety is helping them learn to trust and creating an atmosphere of trust."
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