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When problems become so bad that I cannot deny it I find a scapegoat and tell others it is not my fault.
A way to discharge pain and discomfort
What is blaming
Those suffering from addiction often have one or more medical issues that occur as well. True or False?
True
Make a searching moral fearless inventory of ourselves.
What is Step Four
A persistent, habitual use of alcohol
Alcohol Addiction
This is known as a return to drug use after an attempt to stop
Relapse
Sometimes I'll pretend to know a lot about alcoholism and addiction so other people will think that I know too much to have a problem.
What is rationalizing
You will always notice drug's effect on physical health immediately.
True or False?
False
you may notice the cognitive effects immediately but it takes its toll on your body over time.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. Humility is the core concept of this step.
What us Step Seven: Humbly as Him to remove out shortcomings.
This is the most commonly used, illicit substance in the U.S.
Marijuana
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Affects body movement, emotional response, and ability to feel pleasure and pain.
What is Dopamine
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. Loss of control over using
2. Preoccupation about the substance or behavior and thinks about it constantly
3. continues to use despite negative consequences
The part of the brain known is know as managing our "impulse control"
Pre-Frontal Cortex
What we use to try to deal with difficult situations or events that occur in our lives.
What is Coping Skills
Name 3 specific areas of the body that can be affected by drug use
Mouth
Liver
Throat
Lungs
Skin
Kidney
Bladder
Heart
Brain
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 Neurotransmitter is the most effected when drugs enter the brain
Dopamine
Anything that stimulates the desire to use/drink again. May be a thought, feeling, memory, place, or situation in which we find ourselves.
What is a trigger
Name 3 diseases or illnesses that can result from drug use
Hepatitis
Heart disease
Obesity
Mental health
HIV
Cancer
Stroke
Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is Step Nine
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
Relapse
Neuron