Recovery 1
When was BHG Founded?
2006
Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Who is Bill Wilson (Bill W.) or Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith (Dr. Bob)?
Substance with a highest death rate PER USE in the U.S., higher than suicide
What is Fentanyl?
A place to go to "dry out"...
What is Detox/Rehab?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examines of this useful tool in recovery
What is a coping skill?
According to SAMHSA data, roughly this percentage of adults with a substance use disorder (SUD) also navigate a co-occurring mental illness (nearly half).
What is 45% to 46%?
This core concept involves "detaching from emotional pain" by focusing on the physical world around you using your 5 senses.
What is Grounding?
The term used when an individual has both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder
What is Co-Occurring Disorder/Duel diagnosis?
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger?
In CBT, the letters A-B-C stand for this 3-step sequence used to analyze a situation: Activating Event, Beliefs, and ____________.
What are Consequences?
A phase in the beginning of recovery where individuals feel euphoric and overly optimistic about recovery, often followed by challenges.
What is "the pink cloud" or Honeymoon phase?
True or False: Both caffeine and nicotine are chemically classified as central nervous system stimulants.
What is True?
This foundational wellness practice involves bringing your full, non-judgmental attention to the present moment, anchoring yourself away from future anxieties or past regrets.
What is Mindfulness?
This is the most heavily used and abused substance in the United States.
What is alcohol?
The goal is P_________ not P_________.
What is Progress not Perfection?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a Craving?
This is the only requirement for membership in the NA fellowship.
What is the desire to stop using?
This Seeking Safety topic encourages clients to take back their power by addressing the physical and psychological impact of trauma alongside addiction.
What is PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
Our brain learns by R_________ and R_________
What is Repetition and Reward?
According to Seeking Safety, this is the single most urgent clinical need and the first priority for individuals dealing with trauma and substance use.
What is Establishing Safety?
The Matrix Model is an intensive outpatient framework originally designed specifically to treat addiction to this class of substances (e.g., methamphetamine and cocaine).
What are Stimulants?
In recovery resentments are replaced with what?
Acceptance
what is the 12th step?
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all affairs.
In Seeking Safety, this 4-step behavioral loop describes how a person gets trapped in a cycle: Anxiety, Panic, Avoidance, and Failure to habituate.
What is the Cycle of Avoidance?
What is P. A.W. S.?
What is Post-Acute-Withdrawal-Syndrome?
Often co-created with a counselor or sponsor, this personalized, step-by-step document outlines a person's triggers, coping strategies, and trusted support network to maintain stability.
What is a Safety Plan?
This interpersonal skill involves saying "No" to protect your time, energy, and sobriety from unsafe people.
What is Setting Boundaries?
This mental health term describes a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive, prolonged, and unmanaged stress.
What is Burnout?
what is the first step in the 12 steps of AA
What is admitting we are powerless over alcohol and our lives became unmanageable
While nicotine scores higher in chemical addiction potential, this substance is the undisputed global champion of consumption, with roughly 80% to 90% of the world's population using it daily.
What is Caffeine?
The experience of having episodes of delusions or hallucinations as a results of substance abuse or a certain psychiatric disorder?
What is Psychosis
Something greater than themselves in recovery
What is a Higher Power?
This cognitive Matrix skill involves mentally shouting "Stop!" or visualizing a red sign to interrupt a drug craving before it leads to action.
What is Thought Stopping?
This breathing pattern involves inhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 4, exhaling for 4, and holding for 4 to reset the nervous system.
What is Box Breathing?
This plant-derived substance is currently the most widely used federally controlled substance in the U.S.
What is cannabis (or marijuana)?
Professional specializing in treating mental & emotional disorders is known as...
What is Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Therapist, Counselor?
Addiction is a disease of this body part...
What is the brain?
Housing that many people choose to live in after completing in-patient treatment
What is Sober Living/Oxford house?
Process by which the body rids itself of a drug...
What is Detoxification?
Used to combat heroin/opiate overdose...
What is Narcan or Naloxone?
What year was NA created?
When was 1953?
What is the number one action to get outside of self?
What is being of service or helping others?
What does HALT stand for?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired?
This federal agency conducts the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
What is SAMHSA?
The withdrawal from these two substances can be fatal?
What is Alcohol and Benzos?
With continued substance abuse the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure..
What is Dopamine?
This term describes automatic, biased ways of thinking (like "all-or-nothing thinking" or "catastrophizing") that can lead to negative emotions or relapse.
What are Cognitive Distortions?
When was AA originally created?
When was 1935?
What is one of the biggest factors in maintaining long term sobriety?
What is a strong support system, or network?
An international peer-led mutual aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually-inclined Twelve Step program.
What is AA?
What does the AA for family members called?
al-anon
What does IOP stand for?
What is Intensive Outpatient Program?
The Transtheoretical Model of Change outlines this specific stage where a person is ambivalent—meaning they are sitting on the fence, weighing the pros and cons of quitting, but haven't committed to action yet.
What is Contemplation?
Functional analysis explores the "pros and cons" of use by mapping out short-term rewards versus these long-term destructive outcomes.
What are Consequences?
This condition causes severe shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels, swinging an individual between periods of intense elation (mania) and deep depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
These are the three specific components that make up the points of the classic CBT Cognitive Triangle.
What are Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors?
When a person mixes alcohol and cocaine together, the liver accidentally manufactures this unique, highly toxic third chemical compound that drastically increases the risk of sudden cardiac death.
What is Cocaethylene?
This heavily restricted veterinary sedative, known on the street as "Tranq" when mixed with illicit fentanyl, is widely used by ranchers as a muscle relaxant for cattle because there is no clinical alternative for them.
What is Xylazine?
While often viewed as entirely negative, this basic human emotion is actually a secondary response that usually acts as a protective mask for deeper, more vulnerable feelings like hurt, fear, or sadness.
What is Anger?
In Matrix groups, clients are warned that the high-energy Honeymoon Phase will eventually give way to this next phase, characterized by an abrupt return of low energy, depression, and intense cravings.
What is The Wall?
What is the cardinal rule of all NA/AA meetings?
Anonymity
This increases as you continue to drink/use, requiring you to need more of your substance to feel the same high.
What is Tolerance?