Triggers
All people in Recovery have certain__________, _________, _________, and __________ that are somehow associated with drinking or using drugs.
People, Places, Emotions, and Things
To maintain your sobriety, you need to be able to _________ and identify your personal triggers.
Recognize
This is a thought stopping technique you can try if you use mental imagery as a healthy activity to redirect your thoughts.
Visualization Exercises
This legendary Ancient Greek General struggled with paranoia and considered himself to be a god, causing erratic behavior that led him to murder a close friend. Some historians attribute this behavior to alcoholism, which contributed to his untimely demise at age 32.
Alexander the Great
This iconic member of the 1960's Star Trek cast struggled with alcohol which seriously affected his personal and professional life until he sought help through rehab and A.A. in the 1970's.
Leonard Nimoy (Spock)
Triggers automatically lead to these.
Thoughts about substance use.
Triggers are a sign of this and should be recognized immediately so that you can use your Coping skills/Relapse Prevention Plan.
Danger
Alcoholics Anonymous was established in this year.
1935
This former First Lady a battled an addiction to alcohol and painkillers. After a 1978 intervention, she went into treatment, going on to establish a rehabilitation clinic four years later.
Betty Ford
This iconic American writer has published over 60 books and almost 200 short stories from the 70s through today. Many of them were written in a haze of alcoholism and he wrote in his memoir that he “barely remembers writing” one of them that was a huge hit.
Stephen King
External triggers connected to our past substance use can also include specific ______.
People
Whenever possible, it is best to do this when it comes to high risk people, situations and triggers?
Avoid!
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) was founded in 1953 in this U.S. city.
Los Angeles, California.
This American Astronaut was the second person to walk on the moon. Not many people know that he also struggled with depression and alcoholism.
Buzz Aldrin
This glamorous American actress, one of the most famous classic Hollywood stars, spent over three decades of her career addicted to alcohol and painkillers. She became the first celebrity to openly admit herself to rehab at the Betty Ford Center in 1983.
Elizabeth Taylor
Triggers can lead to thoughts of substance use, which typically then leads to this.
Craving.
Some triggers can't be avoided, but we can engage in a _________ __________ to counter the effect it has on us.
Healthy Activity
The substance with the highest death toll in the United States is this.
Synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl, which is involved in a significant majority of drug overdose deaths.
This American writer published many works of fiction that are still considered classics today. He was injured in WWI, resulting in chronic pain, and drank heavily to escape it.
Ernest Hemingway
This actor, best known as the red‑haired bass player for The Partridge Family, has spoken openly about his struggles with alcohol and other drugs, as well as his path to recovery.
Danny Bonaduce
Triggers can be either of these two types.
Internal or External
Triggers will never stop being powerful if we don't do this.
Talk about them
If you hear a call for this at the airport, asking people to come to a certain location, it’s a code for A.A members to make themselves known.
"A (or Any) friend of Bill W."
This Union General was reportedly constantly intoxicated, drinking from a large barrel of whiskey he kept stowed in his tent during the Civil War. Even so, he led the North to victory and went on to become the 18th president of the United States.
Ulysses S. Grant
Known as the “nice judge” on American Idol, and before that as a pop star, she developed an addiction to opioid pain relievers as a result of a back injury and several surgeries. She entered treatment for opioid use around 2008, and has been in recovery since.
Paula Abdul