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100
This country singer has gone public about his involvement in AA and long term recovery.
Who is Keith Urban?
100
Which artist has albums named "Relapse" and "Recovery"?
Who is Eminem?
100

After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.

What is marijuana?

100
An orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
What is an intervention?
100

Define addiction 

What is A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.

200
On one of his benders, this actor stumbled across the street from his house to a neighbors home and passed out in their child's bed?
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
200
This female musician was asked to go to rehab and she declined. Thereafter, she died of a drug overdose.
Who is Amy Winehouse?
200

This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.

What is tobacco?

200

A form of treatment where the patient lives in a recovery facility

What is Inpatient treatment

200

Define denial 

What is A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.

300
This famous diva uttered the now famous phrase, "Crack is Wack".
Who is Whitney Houston?
300

This person played a concert in a prison 

Who is Johnny Cash

300

There are now more than 13,000 people in this age group who are struggling with addiction.

What is newborn babies

300
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is detox?
300

Define Detox

What is The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances.

400
This "WINNING" actor is infamous for his public meltdowns and TV show firing.
Who Is Charlie Sheen?
400
This male musician died of an overdose and was married to another punk singer.
Who is Kurt Cobain?
400

This drug as an approved anesthetic in humans and was discontinued in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.

What is PCP?

400
A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently in a therapeutic session that share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process
What is a support group?
400

define a trigger 

What is A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.

500
This successful actor's early life was marked by drug addiction and eleven years in and out of prison in California. He credits his turnaround to boxing and attending 12-step meetings while incarcerated in San Quentin
Who is Danny Trejo?
500

This music star famously got a DWI while naked. 

Who is Randy Travis. 

500

One of these prescribed and federally regulated medications can help an opiate addicted individual start recovering from their addiction and structuring his or her life again.

What is Methadone, Suboxone, and Naltrexone.

500
A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/ addictive behavior
What is a relapse?
500

define tolerance 

What is Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.

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