Addiction ABCs
Body & Brain
Miscellaneous
Substances
12 Steps
100

What is the term for behaviors that support someone’s addiction?

Enabling

100

What is the primary brain chemical that spikes during substance use?

Dopamine

100

An event that seeks to increase an alcoholic's desire to quit by confronting them.

Intervention

100

A powerful, addictive, central nervous system depressant produced by fermentation of yeast.

Alcohol

100

Who or what do 12-step members rely on for spiritual help?

Higher Power

200

Prolonged substance use causing mental/physical need?

Dependence

200

Which organ is commonly damaged by heavy alcohol use?

Liver

200

What do we create to avoid returning to substance use?

Relapse Prevention Plan

200

Considered to be the "Gateway Drug"?

Marijuana

200

Which short prayer is often recited in meetings?

Serenity Prayer

300

What is it called when you stop all substance use?

Abstinence

300

How long does it take your body to break down 1 unit of alcohol?

1 Hour

300

What was it called when the American government banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in the 1920's?

Prohibition

300

The most commonly consumed psychoactive substance on earth

Caffeine

300

Accept the facts and accept what you cannot change.

Radical Acceptance

400

 What are thoughts that are harmful to recovery and are usually things we tell ourselves to talk us into using again?

Denial, Rationalization, Justification

400

This population absorbs alcohol slower because they have less of the enzyme which breaks it down.

Women

400

Transferring unacceptable feelings or impulses to another.

Projection

400

Which medication is a short-acting anesthetic commonly used for human procedures?  

Ketamine

400

This step is often cited as "the only step you have to do perfectly".

Step 1

500

What are four vulnerable states that raise relapse risk? (there is a common recovery acronym for this)

HUNGRY

ANGRY

LONELY

TIRED

500

Name 3 specific areas of the body that can be affected by drug use

Mouth

Liver

Throat

Lungs

Skin

Kidney

Bladder

Heart

Brain

500

What percentage of those addicted to substances receive treatment? (Closest wins) 

10%

500

What was an ingredient of Coca-Cola that is no longer there?

Cocaine

500

Who created the NA book?

Anonymous

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