Holiday Relapse Prevention Plan
On the Pot
Acting It
Other Drugs
Feeling It
100

What are two reasons it's important to have a relapse prevention plan during the holidays?

What is increased triggers (stress, parties, boredom) and temptation (social presure, availability of substances)?

100
The percentage of THC found in most marijuana used today, which causes a longer lasting and more intense intoxicated state. (Marijuana from the 1970's had 1-4% THC)
What is 17%?
100
People, places, objects, feelings, and times that cause cravings.
What are triggers?
100
An illegal substance made from the white, milky liquid exuded from the opium poppy.
What is Heroin?
100
An irresistible impulse to act, regardless of how irrational the behavior is.
What is a compulsion?
200

Name three factors you should include when creating a holiday relapse prevention plan.

Identify triggers, create coping strategies, develop a support system

200
Marijuana can be life threatening to a person with any form of this disease.
What is heart disease?
200
An illness in which a person seeks and consumes a substance, such as alcohol, tobacco or a drug, despite the fact that it causes harm.
What is an addiction?
200
A class of drugs that can be natural or synthetic and distort thinking, awareness and the senses.
What is Hallucinogens?
200
Feeling bad about what you have done.
What is Guilt?
300

What strategy can you use if you realize your holiday relapse prevention plan isn’t working as expected?

Pause, evaluate your triggers, use coping tools, reach out to support (sponsor, friend, therapist), and adjust the plan.

300
Five joints have an effect on the lungs equal to well over this many tobacco cigarettes.
What is 100?
300
Reacting to a person in a way that shields him or her from experiencing the full impact of the harmful consequences of their behavior.
What is Enabling?
300
Chemical products that are misused to give the user a drug-like effect, and can cause lasting physical damage.
What are Inhalants?
300
Feeling bad about who you are.
What is Shame?
400

Why is it important to share your sobriety with trusted friends or family members?

It increases accountability, provides support, and ensures they understand your needs.

400
The amount of time THC can be seen in the brain and be detected in a drug screening (after just one use).
What is 3-6 weeks?
400
The thoughts and actions we use to deal with difficult, stressful, scary situations.
What are coping skills?
400
Drug that causes side effects such as malnutrition, cancer of the mouth, esophagus and stomach, and birth defects.
What is Alcohol?
400
HALT is the acronym for ______.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired?
500
The chances of being in a drunk driving accident increase by ______% after drinking a six pack.
What is 44%?
500
The number of states where possession of marijuana is illegal.
What is 50?
500
Addicted to people, behaviors, or things. Trying to control your own feelings by controlling people, things, and events on the outside.
What is codependent?
500
Drug made in small batches, with hazardous household and farm chemicals.
What is Methamphetamine?
500
This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.
What is Justification?
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