Most common addiction across the nation...
What is alcohol?
68% of Americans aged 18 and older used alcohol in the last year.
Substance with a high death rate in the U.S., higher than suicide
What is Fentanyl?
Process by which the body rids itself of a drug...
What is Detoxification?
Who is the Director of Residential Treatment here at RAS?
Marisa
A professional specializing in treating mental & emotional disorders is known as...
What is a Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Therapist, or Counselor?
How many minutes a week should you be meeting with your individual counselor?
What is a minimum of 90 minutes
How often should you self-examination to avoid relapse
What is everyday?
Is the fastest addicting drug...
What is Nicotine?
Gives you too much time to be with your own thoughts
What is isolation/boredom?
What is STEP 1 in NA/AA
Admit that we are powerless over out addiction and that our lives have become unmanageable.
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or dispair...
What is Depression?
Feelings of worry, uneasiness, or dread...
What is Anxiety?
How many groups do we have between 9-5, Monday through Friday, and how many are you expected to attend?
8
All of them
It is referred to as an inability to maintain behavior change over time.
What is a Relapse?
Violent or aggressive behavior within the home.
What is Domestic Violence?
Stress disorder AFTER traumatic event...
What is PTSD?
Abstain from ALL illicit drugs and alcohol...
What is Sobriety or being clean?
Onsite Treatment for addiction
What is Residential Treatment/REHAB?
What are some ways to stay motivated in recovery.
goals, reminders, support, rewards
Triggers
What is any negative thought or feeling?
Person who guides you through the steps and principals.
What is a sponsor or sober support?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a Craving?
Something that makes you want to use
What are triggers
1st symptom experienced as a sign you're developing a substance abuse disorder...
what is Increased tolerance?
What is Crosstalk?
What is two people engaging in a private conversation during a meeting?
What are the 4 C's of recovery?
What is step 10
Continue to take personal inventory and when you are wrong to it.
What is step 8
Make a list of people we have harmed and make amends to them all.
With continued substance abuse, the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure..
What is Dopamine?
Something greater than yourself in recovery
HIGHER POWER
Our brain learns by _________ and _________
What is Repetition and Reward?
What is a Testimony
What is a personal story of recovery?
What are the 5 rules of recovery?
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 5
What does PTSD stand for?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder