Addiction Science
Often abbreviated PAWS, these can be irritability, difficulty concentrating, cravings, or sleep challenges which can last a few months or years after stopping use of a substance.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
Founded in 1935 in Ohio, this community-led group now exists in over 180 countries.
What is AA?
Despite his drug and alcohol related music, this rapper whose name is inspired from a popular chocolate candy has been sober since 2008.
Who is Eminem?
The name of the longest day of the year.
What is summer solstice?
Thinking that views situations in black-and-white terms, with no grey or middle ground.
What is All or Nothing thinking?
This neurotransmitter is important in the pleasure/reward system in the brain which can impact addiction.
What is dopamine?
Name and explain five coping skills helpful for Relapse Prevention.
What is a join a support group, grounding techniques, deep breathing, making an emergency contact list, playing the tape through? More answers will be accepted!
This actor who has been in over 150 movies including Star Wars and Pulp Fiction has been sober since 1991.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
The term SPF is an abbreviation for this.
What is sun protection factor?
The tendency to expect the worst possible outcome in any situation, can happen in anxiety, depression, PTSD and OCD disorders.
What is Catastrophizing?
One of the criteria for substance use disorder, this is the experience of needing to use more of a substance to get the same effect OR using the same amount of the substance but with diminished effects.
What is tolerance?
Name three reasons why the holidays increase relapse risk.
What is change in schedule/routine, more stress, being around family, around others who may be using? More answers will be accepted!
This actor, famous for uttering the line, "Hello Clarice" has been sober for more than 50 years.
Who is Anthony Hopkins?
This country had the first version of the "hot dog".
Where is Frankfurt, Germany?
Thinking and interpreting the meaning of a situation with little or no evidence. Can also being making assumptions about a situation instead of communication.
What is Jumping to Conclusions?
The three substances with the most dangerous (for some even deadly) withdrawal symptoms.
What is alcohol, benzodiazepines and opioids?
This nationwide non-profit offers science-based self-helps groups teaching Self-Management and Recovery Training for recovery.
What is SMART Recovery?
After being fired from multiple jobs, attending over dozens of treatment centers and being incarcerated for over a year; this sober actor is now best known for playing a marvel movie character.
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
This weather happens more often in the summer because of the warm, humid air.
What is thunderstorms?
The belief that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are: “I feel it, therefore it must be true.”
What is Emotional Reasoning?
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5), an individual who has been in recovery and maintained abstinence from a substance for a year or more is considered ____.
What is in sustained remission?
H.A.L.T. is an acronym for things that can make individuals more vulnerable for relapse.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired?
This actress made her big screen debut at 5 years old, hosted SNL at 7 years old and entered rehab at 13 years old. She stopped drinking in 2019 and describes giving up alcohol as one of the "most liberating things in her life."
Who is Drew Barrymore?
The name of the longest continuous beach in America.
Long Beach, Washington (28 miles).
Pretending something isn’t true when it really is to avoid facing uncomfortable truths. Often paired with minimizing and blaming, can make the cycle of addiction increasingly difficult to break.
What is Denial?