Support System
A place where you can meet others who are in recovery and work the steps.
What is AA or NA?
The chemical that is released when one is happy.
What is dopamine?
The stage of change in which one continues to practice the new behavior that they have established for themselves.
What is Maintenance?
The person who helps you work the steps and gives you support.
What is a sponsor?
The number of AA/NA meetings one must attend each week in order to get credit for Monday's group.
What is two?
A "house" in Boone that provides assistance such as food and housing.
What is the Hospitality House?
What is the frontal lobe?
The stage of change where one has a plan on how to change their behavior.
What is preparation?
The book that is used in AA.
What is the Big Book?
The test you are to submit every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
What is a drug screen?
A popular place for AA meetings that is near the Hunger Coalition.
The concept that chronic drug use can modify activity in parts of the brain that have to do with self-control, leading to decreases in one's ability to make rational and responsible decisions and increases in impulsivity and relapse.
What is inhibition?
The stage of change where the new behavior is first implemented.
What is Action?
An international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere. There are no age or education requirements. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem.
What is AA?
The model that the workbook we used is based off of.
What is the stage of change?
A place that provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services within an integrated medicine model of care that treats the whole person.
What is High Country Community Health?
The concept that repeated drug use can strengthen an individual's desire to seek out the substance.
What is motivation?
The stage in which one considers implementing a new behavior.
What is contemplation?
A nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using.
What is NA?
The part of group where we discuss what is going on in our lives.
What is processing?
The people who support you that you talk to such as your family, friends, and coworkers.
What are social supports?
Things that one sees, hears, or feels out in the world that activate a small spurt of dopamine and creates the urge to use.
What are triggers?
The first stage of change in which one does not believe there is a problem.
What is pre-contemplation?
The founding year of AA in which Dr. Bob took his last drink.
What is 1935?
The most important group rule while group is being conducted over Zoom.
What is confidentiality?