The Brain
Recovery Facts
12 Steps / 12 Traditions
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Treatment 101
Movies
100
People, places, and things that make you want to use are called these: ______ ?
Triggers
Acceptable: Cravings
100
The physical item given in AA to mark a milestone, such as 24 hours, 30 days, 60 days, etc.
Chip
Acceptable: Coin, Medallion, Token, Key Tag
100
What is the term for the act of acknowledging harm done and taking steps to make it right, central to Steps 8 and 9?
Making Amends
Acceptable: Amends
100
This emergency medication reverses an opioid overdose almost instantly.
Narcan
Acceptable: Naloxone
100
Sandra Bullock plays a woman court-ordered into residential treatment in this 2000 recovery film.
28 Days
200
What category of drug do alcohol, opioids, and benzos all belong to because they slow down the central nervous system?
Depressants
Acceptable: Downers, CNS Depressants, partially correct but acceptable Sedatives.
Not accepting: Controlled substances, Mind altering, Narcotics, Addictive, etc.
200
The colorful phrase describing the unrealistically positive, almost euphoric feeling some people experience in early recovery.
Pink Cloud
Acceptable: Pink Clouding
200
This Step is about making a list of everyone you've harmed and becoming willing to make amends to them all.
Step Eight
200
This is the term for symptoms like mood swings, sleep problems, and brain fog that linger long after detox ends.
PAWS
Acceptable: Post acute withdrawal syndrome, Post acute withdrawal
200
What 2012 film stars Denzel Washington as a pilot struggling with alcoholism after he performs a miraculous emergency landing.
Flight
300
Dopamine and serotonin are both examples of what, inside the brain?
Neurotransmitters
Acceptable: Chemical Messengers, Monoamines, Hormones, Feel-Good/Happy/Pleasure/Reward Chemicals as their function.
300
Someone who is sober but still miserable, angry, and not doing any recovery work is often referred to as this.
Dry Drunk
Acceptable: White-knuckling, Dry
300
NA's primary text goes by this nickname based on the color of its cover.
Hint: NOT Narcotic's Anonymous / Basic Text
Blue Book
300
This term describes using substances plus having a mental health diagnosis. _____ ________?
Dual-Diagnosis
Acceptable: Co-occurring disorder
300
Joaquin Phoenix plays this legendary country music singer navigating fame and addiction in the 2005 film Walk the Line.
Johnny Cash
400
This is the clinical term for when the brain has been so flooded by drugs that everyday things — food, music, laughter — no longer feel enjoyable.
Hint: Not Depression/Numbness
Anhedonia
400
This acronym names four states that put you at high relapse risk, known as H. A. L. T.
What does it stand for?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
400
AA co-founder Dr. Bob's last name is ______.
Smith
Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith (often referred to simply as "Dr. Bob")
400
In treatment, a patient's legal right to have their records and information kept private is protected by this federal law.
HIPAA
Acceptable: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
400
This actor, known for playing Iron Man, has been open about his real-life addiction and recovery. He was arrested multiple times before getting sober.
Robert Downey Jr.
500
Almost every patient in early recovery struggles with this specific stage of sleep - the dreaming stage - because substances suppress it heavily during active use.
REM Sleep
Acceptable: REM
500
The year Alcoholics Anonymous published its foundational text, commonly known as the Big Book.
April 10th, 1939
500
Bill W. borrowed the 12 Steps from this Christian fellowship, named after a university.
Hint (2 words) _______ _____
Oxford Group
1/2 points: Oxford
500
This (four-letter) trauma therapy uses back-and-forth eye movements to help the brain reprocess painful memories."
EMDR
Acceptable: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing,
500
In this 2018 film, Lady Gaga co-stars with an actor who plays a musician battling alcoholism.
A Star is Born
