12 Steps
Admitted we were powerless over alcohol and drugs - that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step 1.
Smell of smoke, increased use of breath freshener or gum to mask odor, stained teeth and clothing, bad breath, coughing, throat irritation, hoarseness, decreased athletic performance, greater susceptibility to colds, and shortness of breath.
What is tobacco?
Name five coping skills.
What is ask for help, leave a bad scene, honesty, cry, create meaning, set a boundary, create a new story, avoid avoidable suffering, watch for danger signs, try something new, listen to your needs, hobbies, play the tape all the way through, set an action plan, prioritize, detach from emotional pain, solve the problem, learn from experience?
One day (3 words)
What is at a time?
If you don't feel drunk, it is okay to drive. (T or F)
What is false?
People are typically unable to determine accurately how much alcohol is in their system. For most states in the United States, 0.08 1% alcohol in the blood is the legal threshold for driving (it is against law to drive at this blood alcohol content or higher), but studies have shown that driving performance is significantly impaired at half this concentration.
Step 4
What is made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Euphoria, drowsiness, respiratory depression, constricted pupils, nausea.
What is possible signs of use of narcotics?
Reach out to others that are battling the disease of addiction.
What is support network (group).
Sponsor, counselor, friends in recovery, family members that understand addiction.
Don't quit.
What is before the miracle happens?
The belief that people abuse substances because of some biological caused condition.
What is disease model?
A commitment to monitor yourself for any behaviors that may be detrimental to yourself or others and to admit when you are wrong.
What is step 10.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
The need for increased amounts or diminished effect of same amount.
Changes in the body that decreases response to a drug even through the dose remains the same.
What is tolerance?
The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.
What is coping skills?
Cultivate an attitude of.
What is gratitude?
External events or circumstances that may produce very uncomfortable emotional or psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety, panic, discouragement, despair, negative self-talk, return to substance use.
What is triggered?
Reacting to triggers is normal, but if we don't recognize them and respond to them appropriately, they may actually cause a downward spiral, making us feel worse and worse.
The only requirement for AA or NA membership.
What is desire to stop drinking or using.
Slow and shallow breathing, clammy skin, convulsions, coma and possible death.
Primary purpose is not focusing on the problem.
What is solution focused?
Nothing changes if (2 words)
What is nothing changes?
Fact or belief?
Pound for pound, women hold their liquor as well as men.
What is belief?
Fact: Because women have proportionally less body water and tend to metabolize alcohol more slowly than men, women become more intoxicated with comparable dose consumption per body weight.
Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who is Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith?
Founded in 1935 in Akron, Ohio
Withdrawal from alcohol.
Will accept any one of the following answers.
What is anxiety, tremors, nightmares, insomnia, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, seizures, delirium, and manic activity?
Physical and/or psychological effects derived from not using the drug.
A coping style is a typical manner of confronting a stressful situation and dealing with it. (3 styles)
Your worth should never depend on another person's.
What is opinion?
Liver disorders?
What is alcoholic fatty liver? Liver cells increase the production of fat, resulting in enlarged liver.
What is alcoholic hepatitis? Fat cells continue to multiply and generally cause irritation and swelling from continued alcohol intake.
What is cirrhosis? Not reversible and often fatal. Scars begin to form on the liver tissue and they cause hardening of the liver as functional tissue shrinks and deteriorates.
What is because it is a CNS depressant and it affects both mental and physiological functioning?