Relapse and Recovery
The result of believing in a power greater than ourselves.
What is Sanity?
An alcoholic's defense against the first drink must derive from this.
What is A Higher Power?
The percentage of Americans age-12 and over who have had Alcohol Use Disorder.
What is Ten Percent?
A.A. meetings are self-supporting through this.
What is Our Own Contributions?
The initial number of basic Steps, later refined and expanded into a 12-Step program.
What is Six?
The first Step to recovery.
What is Admit We Are Powerless Over Alcohol?
The number of written chapters within the Big Book.
What is Eleven?
This alone is not enough to overcome alcoholism.
What is Willpower?
The "number one offender" that destroys more alcoholics than anything else.
What is Resentment?
Consequence of excessive drinking which can cause unconsciousness, coma, or death.
What is Alcohol Poisoning?
The only requirement for A.A. membership.
What is Desire to Stop Drinking?
Medical doctor who proposed the theory that alcoholism is a physical disease.
Who was William D. Silkworth M.D.?
A result of practicing all Twelve Steps.
What is a Spiritual Awakening?
Year the first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous was printed.
What is 1939?
This occurs to ~50% of individuals during the first year of sobriety.
What is Relapse?
To save their lives, an alcoholic must put this first.
What is Sobriety?
Name given to alcohol because it slows function of the central nervous system.
What is Depressant?
The spiritual foundation of all A.A. Traditions.
What is Anonymity?
Referred to as "an A.A. meeting in print".
What is the A.A. Grapevine?
When other tasks fail, the one most likely to “insure immunity from drinking”.
What is Working With Others?
In 1973, this U.S. President received the one millionth copy of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who was Richard M. Nixon?
Acronym used to identify physical and emotional stress which may trigger a relapse.
What is H.A.L.T.?
An alcoholic will be "absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of this".
What is Self-Knowledge?
Symptoms include headache, anxiety, tremors, seizures, and delirium.
What is Alcohol Withdrawal?
Necessary for personal recovery and the common welfare of A.A.
What is Unity?
The A.A. founding date, June 10, 1935, also signifies this important event.
What was Dr. Bob's Last Drink?
Often the outcome of the easier and softer manner of practicing Step Five.
What is Relapse?
The two reasons Alcoholics Anonymous was nicknamed the 'Big Book'.
What are Thick Pages and Wide Margins?
Persons are more likely to maintain sobriety and reduce the chance of relapse if they do this.
What is Attend Regular A.A. Meetings?
The only suggested relief for alcohol cravings in "The Doctor's Opinion".
What is Entire Abstinence?
Alcohol stimulates the brain's production of this hormone, associated with feeling pleasure.
What is Dopamine?
Each group that carries it's message to the still suffering alcoholic is accomplishing this mission.
What is Primary Purpose?
Known as the "Angel of Hope" for her work helping treat alcoholics at St. Thomas Hospital.
Who was Sister Ignatia?
We claim to achieve this type of personal progress through the 12-Step principles.
What is Spiritual?
Title of the only personal story which appears in the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is "Bill's Story"?