Definitions
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The Brain
Twelve Steps
Grab Bag
100
Administered by injection to control pain, is used in the form of a transdermal skin patch to control pain or treat opioid use disorder and is used alone or in combination with naloxone in the form of a dissolvable tablet placed under the tongue or film placed inside the cheek to treat opioid use disorder.
Buprnorphine/Suboxone
100
A process in which the same amount of a drug begins to have less effect or when the amount of a drug needs to be increased to have the same effect as before.
What is Tolerance.
100
naturally occurring chemicals in the brain
that carry messages between special cells called neurons
What are neurotransmitters
100
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step one
100
Honesty, unselfishness, love, and purity are more commonly known as
What are the four absolutes.
200
A derisory term describing a member of a 12-step program who makes romantic advances toward new, or newer, members of those organizations, who typically have less than one year of recovery.
What is thirteenth stepping
200
These occur when individuals with physical dependence to alcohol and other drugs cut down or stop taking the drug and experience symptoms that are typically the opposite of the effect produced by the drug.
What is Withdrawal Symptoms.
200
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is step four
200
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in what midwestern city?
What is Akron.
300
This can be described as primary, chronic, and disabling condition with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and outcome. It involves compulsion and loss of control, and continued use despite negative consequences.
What is Addiction?
300
this results from prolonged exposure to a mood altering drug. The cells in the body become accustomed to the drug and begin to adapt to the presence of that drug. Physical withdrawal may occur when the substance is removed from the body
What is dependence?
300
This is a defense mechanism that protects people from seeing the harsh realities of their addiction. It is not a river in Africa.
What is denial?
300
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is step nine
300
These two gentlemen were credited as the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who are Bill W. and Doctor Bob.
400
Drug and alcohol _________ means that people think excessively about getting more of the substance, constantly plan when and where they will next drink or use it, and constantly think about hiding the substance from others.
What is preoccupation or obssession.
400
Immoderate emotional or psychological reliance on a partner. Often used with regard to a partner requiring support due to an illness or disease (e.g. substance use disorder).
Co-dependency
400
A chronic memory disorder associated with amnesia, caused by a severe deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B-1), most commonly associated with severe alcohol use disorder
What is Korsakoff's syndrome/wet brain
400
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
What is step three.
400
An
Equals how many grams?
What is 3.5 grams
500
A time limited, intensive, non-residential clinical treatment that often involves participation in several hours of clinical services several days per week. It is a step below partial hospitalization in intensity.
What is Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOP)
500
These drugs include alcohol and other chemicals, substances, and medicines that change a person’s mood or feeling.
What are psychoactive drugs.
500
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
What is step Twelve.
500
"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today" is found on this page of the fourth edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is page 417.