Recovery
The words that make up the acronym H.A.L.T
What are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is Addiction?
Came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Whats's step 2?
_____ is feeling bad about what you have done.
What is Guilt?
Trust God.........Clean house....... and __________.
What is "help others"?
___________ is the fastest addicting drug
What is nicotine?
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial?
This step involves asking a higher power to remove short-comings
What is step 7? "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings"
This illegal substance is made from the white, milky liquid exuded from the opium poppy.
What's Heroin?
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/ addictive behavior
What is relapse?
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances
What is Detox?
This person is a guide, a mentor, and a fellow recovering addict, who volunteers their time to help a newcomer in the 12-step program.
What's a sponsor?
Pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintainance
What are the stages of change?
We must do this for ourselves before we can do this for others?
What is FORGIVE?
Recovery meetings based on Buddhist philosophy
What is Recovery Dharma or Refuge Recovery?
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger?
The twelfth tradition asks members to place this before personalities.
What is Principles (of A.A.)?
The answer to all of our problems (Big Book p. 417).
What is ACCEPTANCE?
The acronym for RELATIONSHIP
What is Really Exciting Love Affair Turns Into Outrageous Nightmare, Sobriety Hangs In Peril?
Recovery group based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
What is SMART recovery?
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.
What is Tolerance?
The first year the Big Book was published
What is 1939?
The street name for synthetic marijuana
What is spice?
When you are pleased with yourself, resting on your laurels and lacking motivation in your recovery you are.....
What is COMPLACENT?