12 Step
What is the first step in recovery?
Admitting that we are powerless over addiction/alcohol and that our lives have become unmanageable.
What chemical in the brain is commonly linked to pleasure and reward in addiction?
Dopamine.
This Prayer is common among those in recovery and is said at the begining or end of meetings?
What is the Serenity Prayer?
My attitude will determine this
What is my Altitude
This is the use of medications, counseling, and behavioral therapies to help with treating opioid use and sustain recovery.
What is Medication Assisted Treatment? (MAT)
What does the slogan “One Day at a Time” mean?
To focus on staying sober today instead of worrying about the future.
When a person needs more of a substance to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him"?
What is Step 3 of the Twelve Steps?
what is the key to all my answers
What is Acceptance?
Alcoholic Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gambler's Anonymous are all examples of programs with this type of format that you can support in recovery.
what are the Twelve Step Fellowships?
What is the purpose of a sponsor in recovery?
To guide, support, and help another person work through the 12 Steps and stay accountable.
Physical and emotional symptoms that happen when someone stops using a substance their body has become dependent on.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
Step 1 of the 12 steps
What is "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-That our lives had become unmanagable"
when my options decrease what happens
What is my willingness will increase?
Meditation, Mindfulness, Exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery
What are coping skills?
In Step 4, members are asked to make what?
A searching and fearless moral inventory of themselves.
Stress Disorder after a Traumatic Event is known as
What is PTSD?
What is step 7
what is "Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings"
what is a barrier against change?
What is a closed mind?
The limits of appropriate behavior between people
What are boundaries?
What step involves making direct amends?
Step 9.
Why is recovery often described as a process instead of a single event?
Because healing the brain, changing behaviors, and building healthy habits takes time and continued effort.
What are the three pertinent ideas?
DAILY DOUBLE
A: that we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
B.That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
C.That God could and would if he were sought.
recovery is a active change of
What is my attitudes and behaviors
The condition of not having any effects from alcohol or drugs
What is Sobriety?