This is Your Brain
Step Lively
Fancy Schmancy Terms
How Much Does All This Really Cost, Jennifer?
Cats Have 4 PAWS
100
Approximately 3 pounds, or your average Chihuahua
What is how much does the brain weigh?
100
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step 2?
100
A primary, progressive, chronic, and incurable disease involving obsession, compulsion, loss of control, and continued use despite negative consequences.
What is Addiction?
100
In 2013, the CDC estimated the "total economic burden" of the abuse of these prescription medications in the U.S. as $78.5 billion
What are Opioids?
100
In recovery, P.A.W.S. means this
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
200
Neurons, or brain cells, communicate with each other by releasing these chemical messengers.
What are neurotransmitters?
200
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step 4?
200
Group of symptoms that occur upon the abrupt discontinuation or decrease in intake of medications or illicit drugs.
What is Withdrawal?
200
The economic costs of excessive consumption of this substance were estimated at $249 billion in 2010.
What is Alcohol?
200
After getting through initial withdrawal symptoms, a person enters a short period of clarity, optimism, and happiness about their recovery called this
What is the Pink Cloud?
300
This brain system, a part of the limbic system, tells us to repeat a behavior because it is good for us OR it makes us feel good.
What is The Reward Center?
300
Made a list of all people we have harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
What is Step 8?
300
The same amount of a drug begins to have less of an effect, so a person must increase the amount of the drug used in order to get the same feeling he or she previously did.
What is Tolerance?
300
These estimates take into account the total cost of substance use, including healthcare costs, loss of work productivity, and costs related to drug-related ___________
What is Crime?
300
(Approximately) 6 months to 2 years after use is discontinued
What is how long does PAWS last?
400
This neurotransmitter is released from the reward center in your brain's limbic system, letting you know you are doing something pleasurable.
What is Dopamine?
400
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is Step 5?
400
Resuming the use of a chemical substance after one or more periods of abstinence.
What is Relapse?
400
When adolescents begin using this drug, their brain development may be permanently affected, reducing attention, memory, and learning functions. They are also at higher risk for developing mental health disorders.
What is Marijuana?
400
People in PAWS often think "I am going crazy!". This reflects the person's inability to solve these everyday occurrences
What are Problems?
500
The "Security Guard" of the brain, this structure regulates memory, emotion, and fear.
What is the Amygdala?
500
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
What is Step 11?
500
We use these to deal with difficult situations, but some are healthier than others....
What are Coping Skills?
500
This activity is responsible for 1 in 5 deaths annually in the U.S., which amounts to about 1300 deaths per day.
What is Cigarette Smoking?
500
During PAWS, a person's Central Nervous System is activated and is trying to return to its pre-use state. Because of this internal state of stress, people in early recovery often struggle with (Name 3)
What are thinking clearly, memory, overreacting to stress, physical coordination, and sleep?
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