Random
Feelings, individuals, smells or situations that cause your brain to crave substances; if you are unaware of them, they could be a factor for relapse.
What is Trigger
Uncontrollable cravings loss of control, use despite negative consequences, chronic and biological brain disease.
Addiction
What is the step that is written and begins to uncover the root cause of one's drinking and drug use?
What is Step Four
What is it called when a person suffers from at least 2 different substances?
Polysubstance Dependence
This is known as a return to drug use after an attempt to stop
Relapse
Slogans in recovery.
____ _____ at a time.
One Day
1. Genetics
2. Environment
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. Humility is the core concept of this step.
What is Step Seven: Humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings.
This is the most commonly used, illicit substance in the U.S.
Marijuana
Science now believes that the human brain is developed at this age.
25
Recovery slogan.
___ not perfection.
Progress
Drug addiction can:
A) Cause mental health issues
B) Develop because of pre-existing mental health issues
C) Does not effect mental health issues
D) A and B
D
This step reduces guilt and shame over the past and starts to liberate you from its power. Provides relief from anxiety and ego and commences the cleansing process.
What is Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of wrongs.
Name 2 characteristics of Addiction
1. Depression
2. Anxiety
3. Continues to use despite negative consequences
4. Lack of impulse control
Your body makes this and your nervous system uses it to send messages between nerve cells. This plays a factor in substance use disorder tolerance.
Dopamine
What we use to try to deal with difficult situations or events that occur in our lives.
What is Coping Skills
What is a short term health affect from substance use disorder?
A. Mental Illness
C. Problem Solving
D. Liver Disease
E. Brian Disease
C.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is Step Ten
The most commonly consumed psychoactive substance on earth
Caffeine
This area of the brain impacts judgement, impulse control and motor functions
What is the Frontal Lobes
The percent of the 21 million Americans who struggle with addiction who actually get treatment?
What is 10%
Addictive drugs provide a shortcut to this part of the brain, by flooding the nucleus accubens with dopamine.
Reward Center
Good judgement, a careful sense of timing, courage and prudence - these are the qualities we shall need when we take this step.
What is Step Nine - Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
This is what it's called when it takes more and more of the same substance to get high/drunk
tolerence
This is the name for a brain cell
Neuron