Random Facts
This animal's fingerprints are so similar to humans' that they can sometimes confuse crime scene investigators.
What is a koala?
This neurotransmitter plays a major role in reward, pleasure, and motivation, and is heavily affected by addictive substances.
What is dopamine?
: These are potentially traumatic events or ongoing stressors that happen before age 18 and can affect health, relationships, and substance use later in life
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
the intentional, everyday actions we take to care for our physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual health.
Octopuses have this number of hearts.
What is three?
when a person needs more of a substance to achieve the same effect they once got from a smaller amount
What is tolerance?
Research found that people with four or more _____ had a much higher risk of alcohol problems, drug problems, depression, and suicide attempts
What are four or more ACEs?
The program teaches that relapse is not a single event but a process consisting of emotional relapse, mental relapse, and this final stage
What is physical relapse?
Archaeologists have found jars of this sweet food in ancient Egyptian tombs that were still edible.
What is honey?
Recovery is possible because of this ability of the brain to form new pathways and strengthen healthier habits over time.
What is neuroplasticity?
ACEs can affect the brain, but the program teaches that the brain can still do this
What is heal/change/recover?
physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, work
what are the areas of self care?
This is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in any U.S. state name.
What is the letter Q?
These are people, places, emotions, or situations that can bring back thoughts, feelings, or memories associated with substance use
What are triggers?
Violence toward a parent or caregiver, Substance use in the home, Mental illness in the home, Parental separation or divorce, A household member being incarcerated (jail/prison)
What are household challenges?
This is the earliest stage of relapse, where self-care starts slipping through things like poor sleep, isolation, bottling up feelings, or skipping appointments
What is emotional relapse?
This everyday object was invented before the telephone.
What is the can opener?
This acronym reminds people in recovery to check whether they are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired.
What is HALT?
This factor is often described as helping people "put down some of the heavy backpack" created by ACEs and includes supportive relationships, coping skills, and treatment
What is resilience (or healing and support)?
self-care is r_____ p_____________.
what is relapse prevention?