Body Chemistry
Addiction affects what part of human anatomy
What is the brain/body?
The opposite of _____ is _____
Addiction, connection
Housing that many people choose to live in after completing in-patient treatment
What is recovery housing/sober living?
What does SMART stand for in SMART Recovery?
S=Specific
M=Measurable
A=Attainable
R=Realistic
T=Timely
_________ at a time. (What is this slogan)
The diminishing effect of a drug after repeated use.
What is tolerance
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery
What is a coping skill?
The term used when an individual has both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder
What is a Co-occuring disorder?
An international peer-led mutual aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually-inclined Twelve Step program.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse, social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance as times goes on to achieve the same effect
What is addiction?
What is a trigger?
If you work on these 3 holistic things, it's said to help your recovery
What is Mind, Body, and Spirit
In ______ we celebrate National Recovery Month?
What is September?
Bonus: What does SAMHSA stand for?
Refuge Recovery and Recovery Dharma
What is Buddist based recovery groups?
A hypothesis that states: The initial substance that overtime causes the likelihood of engagement with another substance?
What is the gateway hypothesis?
The chemical messenger released into the brain when doing drugs
What is Dopamine?
Bonus: What activities can release dopamine?
Some high-risk situations to avoid are not let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. What can help you remember these circumstances?
What is HALT?
The withdrawal from these two substances can be fatal?
What is alcohol and benzodiazepines?
A behaviorally based support group run by trained facilitations?
What is Smart Recovery?
Emotional or physical limits that people set to create a healthy sense of personal space
What is a boundary?
Common in early recovery, ____ is the inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things.
What is Anhedonia
Information or an emergency kit to help prevent an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy activities to participate in, and coping skills
What is a relapse prevention plan?
What is P. A.W. S.?
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
Bonus: true or false: PAWS can last anywhere from 6 months to 2 years after last use.
A group similar to AA or NA but for family members
What is Al-Anon?
Goes around the world yet stays in a corner
What is a Stamp