True or False
True or False: If you relapse, the time you spent sober doesn’t count or mean anything
What is false?
Alcoholics Anonymous started in this city and state
Where is Akron, Ohio?
The year NA was started.
What is the year 1953?
Addiction is a disease of a spirit, a moral failing. [now considered a toxic treatment model]
What is the moral model?
Sitting in a calm, quiet place while attempting to bring your attention to your body while letting go of extraneous [distracting] thoughts.
What is mindfulness? also acceptable, what is grounding?
All people are susceptible to addiction.
What is true?
HALT (in the context of A.A.) means
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
Which Step says the following we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
What is step 4?
Addiction is a disease that requires medical intervention.
What is the medical model?
Discovered while doing research on smokers, this type of breath is the primary reason smokers report cigarettes help them feel calm. inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, exhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4 more seconds. repeat the exercise 4 - 5 times.
What is the squared breath?
The term "stimulant" refers to a substance that speeds up the digestive system.
What is false? It "stimulates" the central nervous system.
The only requirement for AA membership (A.A.’s 3rd tradition)
What is a desire to stop drinking
who was the founder of narcotics anonymous
Who is James "Jimmy K" Kinnon?
Addiction is a social disease borne out of a lack of resources. Scarce availability over evolutionary time of both food and money may explain their similar drug-like non-satiability, suggesting an integrated mechanism for generalized reinforcers
What are the scarcity mentality? Also acceptable Scarcity theory [not to be confused with economic theory], or Scarcity model.
a body activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.
What is exercise?
Things that happen to me that are likely to set off a chain reaction of uncomfortable or unhelpful behaviors, thoughts or feelings are called my resources.
What is false? These are triggers.
the “code” name A.A. members use to identify themselves so as to maintain anonymity
What are friends of Bill W.
In what steps do we make amends where ever possible.
What is step nine?
Tabula rasa or blank slate is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. This theory of addiction [now outdated] contends that people use substances because of the way they were raised.
What is the environmental model? Also acceptable the Nurture model.
Participating regularly in a group, that provides accountability, education, and the ability to meet peers who understand what you are going through
What is going to a recovery support group?
In wellness recovery action planning the things I need to do for myself every day to keep myself feeling as well as possible is called my daily maintenance schedule.
What is true?
In the tradition of AA the four horsemen are _____, _____, _____, _____
Who are terror, bewilderment, frustration, despair?
In step one we decided that our lives had become what
What is unmanageable?
Addiction is a disease with numerous complex factors including genetics, biology [vulnerabilities] interacting with the toxins in the environment, trauma, or adverse childhood experiences. This model contends that a genetic susceptibility must be shaped by environmental forces to create the addiction condition.
What is the diathesis stress model of addiction?
An activity, interest, or pastime that is undertaken for pleasure or relaxation, done during one's own leisure time usually providing enrichment, and preventing boredom.
What are hobbies?