Support Groups
Christian based recovery group
What is Celebrate Recovery?
With continued substance use our brain stops producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure
What is dopamine?
Share how you know you are an alcoholic or addict?
? Good job daily double
A behaviorally based support group run by trained facilitators
What is SMART Recovery?
According to the movie "Pleasure unwoven" this part of brain is where addiction originates
What is the midbrain?
Get Enough Sleep
Maintain a healthy diet
Exercise
Probiotics
Get plenty of these: apples, avocados, bananas, beans, eggplants, oranges, peas, plantains, spinach, and tomatoes.
Medication assisted therapy
Eat a diet high in l-tyrosine
Listen to music
What are ways to boost dopamine?
Refuge Recovery and Recovery Dharma
What are Buddhist recovery groups?
Depression, anxiety, anhedonia, fatigue and sleeplessness are all part of ______ which can last for up to 2 years.
What is PAWS?
These help you stay anchored to your recovery to avoid the relapse drift
What are mooring lines?
This 12 step group started in the Annapolis area in the 80's
What is CDA
Common in early recovery, ____ is the inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things.
What is anhedonia?
Feelings of _____ are connected with several unfavorable outcomes such as heart disease, diabetes, mental illness and Alzheimers.
What is loneliness?
Y12SR and Recovery 2.0
What are yoga based 12 step programs/meetings?
Based on the differences between the identical and non-identical twins, studies show ____ percent of addiction is due to genetic factors.
What is 50-60%
The drive (or compulsion) to continue using chemicals despite negative consequences
What is the"phenomena of craving"?