AA
Who are the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous?
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith.
Recovery is about progress, not _____
Perfection
Strategies and techniques that individuals develop to deal with triggers, stress, and challenges without resorting to addictive behaviors or substances.
Coping Skills
The presence of two or more mental health disorders or conditions, such as addiction and depression, occurring simultaneously in an individual.
Co-occurring Disorder
This drug is has the most physical withdrawal of all other drugs.
Heroin
What is the birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous?
Akron Ohio
If we're facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on _____
Walking
Behavior that supports or allows an addicted individual to continue their addictive patterns by minimizing consequences or facilitating access to the substance or behavior.
Enabling
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as
Gratitude
This type of withdrawal can come around 6-9 months and can even happen a year or two after quitting.
PAWS
What is the birthdate of Alcoholics Anonymous?
June 10th 1935
A one-time return to addictive behavior after a period of abstinence or successful recovery.
Slip
Complete avoidance of the addictive substance or behavior, a common goal in addiction recovery.
Abstinence
Our brain learns by ________ and _________.
Repetition and Reward
Feelings of Nausea, aches and pains, diarrhea, runny nose, leg cramps
Withdrawl Symptoms
What is the 9th step?
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
____________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
Dopamine
Name two HEALTHY coping mechanisms
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A condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
Mental Illness
What is Methodone typically used for to treat?
Opioid addiction
Surrendering to the will of our higher power gets easier with _____
Daily Practice
Three indispensable spiritual principles in the 12 step fellowship are? (hint, think of H.O.W.)
What are honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness.
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as
Gratitude
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
What are the two active ingredients in Suboxone?
Buprenorphine and Naloxone