Understanding Addiction
World Spiritual Traditions
General Knowledge Anagrams
Recovery & Resilience
Wide World
100

This part of the brain, tied to rewards and motivation, becomes overstimulated by addictive substances.

What is the dopamine system?

100

This religion teaches the Middle Way as a path to balance.

What is Buddhism?

100

This river is the longest in Africa and one of the longest in the world. Line

What is the Nile?

100

This term describes people, environments, or situations that increase the chance of returning to old habits.

What are triggers

100

This U.S. document begins with “We the People.”

What is the Constitution?

200

Addiction specialists often say this “big three” cycle includes trigger, thought, and this third step.

What is craving?

200

This Christian sacrament symbolizes forgiveness and renewal.

What is baptism?

200

This planet rotates the opposite direction from Earth. Nevsu 

Venus

200

This term describes replacing harmful behaviors with positive ones that serve the same need.

substitution coping

200

This Enlightenment thinker wrote The Social Contract.

Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

300

This type of addiction involves behaviors like gambling or gaming rather than substances.

What is behavioral addiction?

300

This word in Hinduism means “the ultimate reality” beyond all form and identity.

What is Brahman?

300

This branch of math deals with limits, derivatives, and integrals. Luclucsa

What is calculus

300

This term describes taking from the past to learn from the present

DBT

300

capital city of Iceland.

What is Reykjavík?

400

This stage of change refers to when a person is thinking seriously about making a change but hasn’t committed yet.

What is contemplation?

400

This Sufi poet wrote, “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

Who is Rumi?

400

This element, symbol Fe, is essential for transporting oxygen in the blood Nori

What is iron?

400

This type of therapy focuses on building internal motivation for change rather than external pressure.

What is motivational interviewing?

400

The scientist who discovered penicillin.

Who is Alexander Fleming?

500

This scientific term describes the brain’s ability to rewire itself during recovery.

What is neuroplasticity?

500

This Daoist concept emphasizes effortless alignment with life’s flow.

What is wu-wei?

500

This branch of biology studies ecosystems and how organisms interact. Clogeyo

What is ecology?

500

This grounded practice helps people calm their nervous system by returning to the present.

What is mindfulness?

500

This 90s toy famously asked, “Me hungry?”

What is a Furby?

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