Addiction Miscellany
You can go to one of these to be with others in recovery. This can help you to remember that you can get through this. Get other people’s names and numbers to call in case of future cravings and urges.
What are support groups?
This actor/comedian who lived in the bay area struggled with addiction and substance abuse. He committed suicide in 2014.
Who is Robin Williams?
Negative, incorrect beliefs, stereotypes, and labels are another name for this
What is Stigma?
A major symptom when a cocaine abuser enters withdrawal.
What is Anxiety?
The major organ that is directly effected the most by drug use.
What is the brain?
True or False: AA/NA and other 12 step groups are the only support groups that exist for people who wish to maintain recovery
False: There are many other support groups for addiction(SMART, Rational Recovery, etc.)that do not use a 12 step approach.
This rapper/MC struggled with opioids for years before finding recovery
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Behaviors characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is addiction?
Genetics, environment, early age, stress/trauma, and mental health history
What are risk factors for addiction?
The brain finishes developing once you reach this age.
What is 25?
True or False: You have to believe in God and religion to be a member of NA or AA?
False: the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. 12 step programs are not religious and hundreds of thousands of atheists and agnostics have recovered in these fellowships.
This author, who wrote books such as Carrie and The Green Mile struggled with alcohol and prescription drug addiction for years.
Who is Stephen King?
The need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. In other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
What is tolerance?
Complete abstinence, drug education and healthy coping skills
What are things that can decrease a person's chance of developing an addiction?
When you have both a Mental Health illness and addiction of any kind.
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What is a co-occurring disorder or dual diagnosis?
This type of addiction is when the MIND sends the body a message that it needs more of a drug.
What is Psychological Dependency?
This Marvel actor has struggled with alcoholism over the years.
Daily Double!
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
The process by which a poison or toxin is removed from the body and generally medically supervised treatment designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances.
What is detox?
The younger people use substances, the less chance they have at becoming addicted. True or false?
False. The younger one begins using the more chance they have at becoming addicted.
Mouth, Liver, Throat, Lungs, Skin, Kidney, Bladder, Heart, and Brain
What are parts of the body that can be affected by drug use?
An event that seeks to increase an alcoholic's desire to quit by confronting them. It's also the name of a tv show.
What is an Intervention?
The beloved but troubled rapper died of a fatal mixture of cocaine and the prescription drug Tramadol in 2004.
Who was ODB?
A neurotransmitter in the brain that is triggered by substances and causes a repeat in behaviors?
Daily Double!
What is dopamine?
This country has the highest rate of addiction in the world
What is Iran?
Hepatitis, Heart Disease, Kidney disease, Obesity, Mental Health disorders, HIV, Cancer, a Stroke, etc.
What are illnesses that can result from drug use?