Substance Basics
100: This legal drug kills more people annually than all illegal drugs combined.
👉 What is alcohol?
100: This chemical in the brain is heavily linked to feelings of pleasure and reward.
Answer: What is dopamine?
100: True or False: Having a family history of addiction increases your own risk.
👉 What is true?
100: True or False-Radical acceptance means I'm okay with what has happened to me.
👉 What is false?
100: This is the first step in many treatment programs.
👉 What is detoxification?
200: This legal substance causes more preventable deaths than any other drug in the U.S.
Answer: What is tobacco?
200: Long-term alcohol use can lead to damage of this vital organ.
👉 What is the liver?
200: Growing up in this type of environment can increase the risk for future substance use.
Answer: What is a chaotic, abusive, or neglectful home?
200: True or False: Once you develop a tolerance to a drug, you are safe from overdose.
Answer: False
200: These particular professionals are also skilled in understanding addiction disorders.
👉 What are LCDC's?
300: This class of drugs includes heroin, fentanyl, and oxycodone.
Answer: What are opioids?
300: Methamphetamine use can severely damage the brain’s ability to regulate this type of emotion.
Answer: What is anger or aggression?
300: Name the process where the body reacts negatively when a substance is removed after detoxification.
👉 What is PAWS?
300: True or False: “Relapse means treatment didn’t work.”
👉 What is false?
300: This is a support group for people who have been affected by someone else’s drinking.
What is Al-Anon?
400: This substance is a depressant but is often mistaken for a stimulant because it lowers inhibitions.
Answer: What is alcohol?
400: Repeated drug use can change this part of the brain responsible for decision-making.
👉 What is the prefrontal cortex?
400: The stage of change where a person is now maintaining their recovery after 6 months.
👉 What is maintenance?
400: True or False: Recovery from addiction often involves changing people, places, and habits.
Answer: True
400: Name one coping skill where a person does something very different from what they may normally do.
Answer: What is opposite action?
500: This drug was once legally sold in soda and medicines in the early 1900s.
Answer: What is cocaine?
500: Name one brain chemical besides dopamine that can be thrown off balance by drug use.
Answer: What is serotonin, norepinephrine, GABA, or glutamate?
500: (Hard Question) In harm reduction, providing education on safe usage, offering treatment when ready, and respecting client autonomy are parts of this philosophy.
Answer: What is "meeting people where they are"?
500: True or False: “Rock bottom is a choice point not the end."
👉 What is true?
500: (Hard Question) This is the process of learning to live without relying on substances, even after setbacks.
Answer: What is recovery?