The Science Behind Addiction
This organ is primarily responsible for filtering out and metabolizing toxins like alcohol from the human body.
What is the Liver?
This step is about admitting one's self as powerless and life being unmanageable.
What is the first step?
This healthy habit involves expressing appreciation for the positive things in your life, which has been shown to physically lower cortisol and improve mood.
What is Gratitude?
This defense mechanism involves minimizing or completely refusing to accept the reality of a substance use problem despite clear evidence.
What is denial
Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
What is insanity.
This term refers to the body's adaptation to a substance, requiring the person to take larger amounts over time to achieve the same effect.
What is Tolerance?
Step 4 requires individuals to make a searching and fearless look into themselves know by this term.
What is moral inventory?
This mental practice involves intentionally anchoring your mind to the present moment to reduce stress, manage cravings, and improve focus.
What is Mindfulness?
This common acronym stands for four physical or emotional states that make a person highly vulnerable to cravings. Name the acronym and the emotional states.
What is H.A.L.T.? Standing for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired.
Changing these three things helps early recovery.
What is people, places and things.
This clinical approach uses FDA-approved medications alongside counseling to reduce cravings and stabilize brain chemistry.
What is Medicated Assisted Treatment or MAT?
This step includes a process or prayer and meditation as a method for improving connection with a higher pawer and asking for direction.
What is step 11?
When a craving hits, you don't fight it directly; instead, you watch it rise, peak, and fade away like a wave in the ocean.
What is Urge Surfing?
Your sibling invites you to a family dinner where you know alcohol will be heavily served and toxic dynamics will flare up, so you politely decline to protect your peace. What is this action called?
What is setting a Healthy Boundaries?
Recovery is progress not _________.
What is perfection.
This chemical neurotransmitter is the primary target in the brain's "reward center," creating feelings of pleasure and reinforcement.
What is Dopamine?
This popular 12 step fellowship originally started in 1892, is known for being all-inclusive.
What is Cocaine Anonymous?
This action involves setting clear, healthy limits on what you will tolerate from others to protect your emotional well-being and sobriety.
What is establishing boundaries
This condition involves prolonged, subtle symptoms like mood swings and sleep issues that can last months after detoxing.
What is PAWS or Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
It works if you _____ ______.
Work it.
Located at the front of the brain, this specific cortex controls decision-making and impulse control, and is heavily impacted by chronic substance use.
Co-founded by Bill Wilson, this is the common, affection-based nickname given to the foundational textbook of Alcoholics Anonyumous
What is the big book?
Often used in addiction recovery and decision-making, this 4-word phrase means visualizing the long-term consequences of an action before you take it.
What is "Playing the Tape Through"?
In relapse prevention theory, this mental defense mechanism occurs when a person rationalizes or convinces themselves that "just one drink" or "using just once" will be fine.
What is rationalization?
Our ______ keeps us sick.
Secrets.