Recovery Basics
What is the first step in the 12-step recovery program?
What is admitting you are powerless over your addiction?
A group for men and women who have a desire to stop using drugs or alcohol. Ex. NA, AA, CA….etc
What are 12 Step Fellowships?
Name for a person also in recovery who can offer you lived experiences, guidance, resources, and assist in working through the 12 Steps.
Who is Sponsor/Peer Support?
This term describes someone who has both a substance use disorder and a mental health condition.
What is co-occurring disorders (or dual diagnosis)?
This term refers to the process of safely removing a substance from the body.
What is detox?
This classic slogan reminds you to stay grounded and focus only on the 24 hours in front of you.
What is “One day at a time”?
Excessive use of this substance can lead to liver cirrhosis.
What is Alcohol?
In what month do we celebrate national Recovery Month?
What is September?
Meetings for family or friends of those struggling with alcohol or drug abuse.
What is Al-Anon?
What is the name of the physical and emotional limits of appropriate behavior between people.
What are boundaries?
People with mental health symptoms sometimes turn to drugs or alcohol for relief instead of treatment. What is this called?
What is self medicating?
“Over time, people often need higher amounts of a substance to feel the same effect. This is known as what?”
What is tolerance?
This phrase describes someone who’s stopped using but is still acting selfish, negative, or stuck in old behavior.
What is “dry drunk”?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences.
What is a coping skill?
What does the acronym HALT stand for?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely Tired?
Support group that doesn’t include any aspects of spirituality or religion. Teach coping skills to help participants address four main points: Build and maintain motivation, Cope with urges, Manage thoughts, feeling and behaviors, and Live a balanced life.
What is SMART Recovery?
Getting enough rest, eating healthy, exercising, practicing mindfulness, and taking care of mental and physical health are examples of what?
Self-Care
This disorder involves obsessive thoughts and repetitive behaviors, and people may use substances to quiet their anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
__________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction.
What is dopamine?
This popular slogan reminds people to stop trying to control everything and trust in a power greater than themselves.
What is “Let go and let God” ?
We are only as ______ as our _____
What is We are only as sick as our secrets
Excessive emotional, physical, or psychological reliance on a partner.
What is codependency?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is the scientifically proven speed at which the addict brain wants everything.
What is now (or faster than now)?
A phase at the beginning of recovery where individuals feel euphoric and overly optimistic about recovery, often followed by challenges.
What is "the pink cloud"?
Used to combat a Heroin/Opiate Overdose
What is Narcan?
Thoughts influence our feelings which influence our behaviors. What therapy is this the cornerstone of?
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This slogan reminds people to avoid unnecessary drama and keep their focus on personal recovery.
What is “Keep your side of the street clean”?
Long-term use of this drug can cause memory loss, mood swings, and significant damage to the brain’s ability to learn — even though it's often thought of as harmless.
What is Marijuana?
What are the Three Stages of Recovery?
What is abstinence, repair, and growth.
What is P. A.W. S.?
What is Post-Acute-Withdrawal-Syndrome?
Three stages of relapse. Name in order.
Emotional relapse, mental relapse, and physical relapse.
Name the disorder that includes the following symptoms: excessive worry, sweaty palms, rapid heard rate, rapid breathing, and expecting the worst?
What is anxiety?
When you feel hopeless or believe recovery won’t work for you, this kind of thinking can lead to relapse.
What is stinking thinking?
The act of being appreciative of the things in your life?
What is gratitude?
TRIPPLE JEOPARDY
Common in early recovery, ____ is the inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things.
What is Anhedonia?
This type of thinking can trick people into believing they don’t need help, even when their life is falling apart.
What is denial?
In a 12-step group, this is the term for the ________ step, which involves writing down a detailed moral inventory of oneself.
What is the fourth step?
This Academy Award–winning actor, famous for roles in Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society, struggled with alcoholism and cocaine use before relapsing later in life.
Who is Robin Williams?
This trauma-related condition can cause emotional detachment, memory gaps, and “numbing out,” and is sometimes confused with laziness or apathy in recovery.
What is dissociation?
This condition, often associated with alcohol, involves the inability to remember events that occurred while intoxicated.
What is blackout?
The frontal lobe of the brain is fully developed by this age.
Age 25
This action helps you face problems instead of running from them.
What is asking for help?