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Having to use more and more of a substance over time.
What is tolerance?
Addiction occurs in this part of the body.
What is the brain?
Over ___% of people with addictions began drinking, smoking, or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
What is 90%?
Twelve step programs suggests getting one of these to guide you through the steps.
What is a sponsor?
John Belushi was a legendary actor and comedian who shocked the world in 1982 when he overdosed and died from mixing cocaine and heroin. He was on the original lineup of this longstanding TV show.
What is SNL?
Physically addictive substances when stopped can bring these uncomfortable physical symptoms.
What is withdrawal?
Most of the alcohol in the body is broken down by this organ.
What is the liver?
Approximately ___% of the U.S. population is addicted to drugs or alcohol.
What is 10%?
Step that asks you to write about areas of guilt, fear, regret, embarrassment, or anger.
What is Step 4?
Wizard of Oz star struggled with addiction for much of her life and died of a barbiturate overdose at age 47.
Who is Judy Garland?
Failure to recognize the truth about a problem, particularly about an addiction.
What is denial?
The neurotransmitter most often released in your brain when using drugs.
What is dopamine?
Each year in the U.S. nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug.
What is alcohol?
______ suggests that you make amends to people you have harmed.
What is Step 9?
"Baywatch" boy began struggling with alcohol in the early 1970s. Wearing only sweatpants, he fled a rehab center in 2002.
Who is David Hasselhoff?
Class of drugs used medicinally for thousands of years to relieve physical pain but nowadays often abused to relieve emotional pain.
What are opioids?
Withdrawal from this drug can cause restlessness, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, and vivid/unpleasant dreams.
What is cocaine?
The total legal, healthcare, and criminal justice costs related to drugs and addiction in 2007.
What is 200 billion dollars?
Abstinence alone is not enough. The 12 Steps also help you work on ___ ____.
What are character defects?
The Dark Knight star died in 2008 of a toxic combination of six prescription drugs.
Who is Heath Ledger?
Stimulants such as cocaine and meth can induce a mental state of hallucinations and extreme paranoid delusions called _______.
What is psychosis?
_____ happens to a baby (at birth) when a pregnant woman has abused opioids during pregnancy.
What is Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?
Drug responsible for an estimated 5 million deaths worldwide each year.
What is tobacco?
A.A. was founded in ____.
What is 1935?
Following a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in 1991, he turned to alcohol as an escape. Known for "Back to the Future."
Who is Michael J. Fox?