12 Steps
This step helps us to see our own powerlessness.
What is Step One?
This drug causes the greatest number of deaths in the United States, is responsible for about one in five deaths.
What is tobacco?
Doing this naturally releases feel-good hormones and can decrease the time it takes for the brain to recover from substance use.
What is exercise?
________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is dopamine?
"We were always on the look our for ways we could force things to go as we wanted", demonstrates this step.
What is Step Three?
This substance will not restore senses affected by alcohol, such as vision; however, it is offered more than any other substance as a quick way to sober up.
What is coffee?
This is first stage of treatment/recovery. |
What is detoxification?
Trying to protect the addicted person from facing the consequences of their drug related problems is called this.
What is enabling?
These two steps are known as the amends steps.
What are Steps 8 and 9?
Approximately 8.4 percent of the adult population in the United States suffer with this.
What is a substance use disorder?
On average, it takes at least this long for the drug addicted person's brain chemistry to recover.
What is one year?
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.
What is tolerance?
In this step you admit to at least one other human being the exact nature of your wrongs. |
What is Step Five?
Smoking affects almost every, if not every part of the body, but it effects these three body parts the most, name at least two.
What are heart, lung, and blood vessels?
These three things make a person more vulnerable to a substance use disorder, name at least two of the three. |
What are genetics, environment, and personality traits?
People who become overly concerned with another's addiction problem and feel driven to fix or control it
What is co-dependent?
This step mentions "spiritual recovery".
What is Step Twelve?
Bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, blackouts, limb spasms,hearing loss and the loss of brain cells are consequences from abusing what type of drugs?
What are inhalants?
This portion of the brain of an individual is "turned off" with continued use of substances. This part of the brain controls what.
What is prefrontal cortex and decision making?
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, refuse to admit that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial?