Recovery/Addiction Facts
This part of the brain controls your fight/flight/freeze/fawn response.
Amygdala
This was the most popular substance in the USA in the 1970's.
Cocaine
a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
Mindfulness
What is the first stage of a relapse?
Emotional Relapse
What makes up a majority of dust around a home?
Dead human skin cells
It is estimated that what percentage of adults in the USA meet the qualification for a substance use disorder?
25-38%
Which explorer was the first to bring tobacco back to Europe in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
a mentor or a guide who has been in recovery and worked through the steps and no longer has to drink or use.
A sponsor
This is a document created to help when feeling like one might be facing a relapse.
Relapse prevention plan
What is the only letter that does not appear in a USA state name?
Q
What percentage of people age 12 and older have used an illicit substance at least 1x?
50%
Which people were among the first to record their use of opium for medicinal purposes
Ancient Egyptians
You can eat sour candy, a lemon, or hold ice to help with what?
Panic attack/ anxiety
What does HALT stand for
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
What is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself when damaged?
Teeth
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.
Tolerance
This substance was invented in 1805.
Morphine
Yelling into a pillow can help with what emotion?
Anger, frustration, overwhelm
_____ _______ are the thoughts and feelings that a person has that can cause a desire for drugs or alcohol
Internal Triggers
Which common condiment was originally sold as medicine?
70% of individuals struggling with ______ will relapse at some point, however, relapse rates decline the longer someone stays sober.
Alcoholism
This company, which is still around today, created heroin as a pain and cough medication.
The Bayer Company (aspirin)
Efforts that are taken to reduce the likelihood of experiencing, or lessen the impact of, stress in the future.
Preventative Coping Skills
_____ _______ is a strategy that involves blocking and replacing unwanted, distressing thoughts. The technique is sometimes used in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) as a way to halt or disrupt negative thoughts. 1 Then, a more adaptive or helpful thought can then be substituted for the unhelpful one.
Thought Stopping
Which city is the most populated in the world?
Tokyo