Substance use recovery / SUR-A09-5
Harm Reduction and Safety Questions — Review journal
Review an attempt at harm reduction and safety questions and choose what to keep, change, or leave aside.
10 minutes · Journal prompts · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Jordan wants a safety conversation while still deciding on longer-term goals.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Reducing harm and seeking treatment can coexist with different recovery goals.
Before looking back
Choose one ordinary attempt or decide to review the fictional example instead. This journal has no scores, required disclosure, or expectation of progress.
Revisit the practice
Prepare questions for a clinician or harm-reduction service about overdose prevention, naloxone, and other locally appropriate supports.
Notice context and impact
Record what actually happened, including an unhelpful or neutral outcome. Note resources, power differences, accessibility, and changed conditions rather than attributing everything to personal effort.
Choose a revision
What support can be sought now without waiting for perfect readiness? Keep the approach, change one part, ask for support, or set it aside. A mismatch is useful information.
Prompts for this resource
- What I tried, or what happened in the fictional example:
- What I noticed before, during, and after; what remains uncertain:
- What helped, did not help, or was outside my control:
- What support can be sought now without waiting for perfect readiness? My optional adjustment or support request:
Conceptual background
Substance Use Disorders — National Institutes of Health
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.