Addiction
If it's Negative in Your Life then Make it Positive
Coping Skills
What am I using
Celebrities and addiction
100
H.A.L.T is an acronym used in recovery.
What is
Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired?
These are the four most common stressors in addiction and sometimes dealing with mental illness.
100
We make dozens if not hundreds of these a day with our minds and one of the best ways to improve our lives is to practice making good ones.
What is Decisions/Choices?
100
The practice of focusing the mind to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
What is Meditation?
100
The oldest known intoxicating substance used specifically for recreational purposes (even dating back to biblical times)
What is Alcohol?
100
He was introduced to drugs by his famous father and spent time in jail. He saw a resurgence in his popularity since entering recovery and staring in a series of hit movies, namely as a metallic man.
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
Bonus 100: Name the franchise that provided this client "second chance" and name the role he played
200
You take more and more of a substance to get the same effect which often fuels the desire and need for using larger amounts.
What is Tolerance?
200
Positive statements about who we are and what our potential is. These help us feel good about ourselves and focus on what we want.
What are Affirmation?
Bonus 100: Share 2 affirmation that you use on a daily basis.
200
The habit of putting down on paper your thoughts and feelings as a way to work through your emotions.
What is Journaling?
200
Class of drugs used medicinally for thousands of years to relieve physical pain. Nowadays it is often abused to relieve emotional pain.
What are Opiates/Opioids?
200
She spent most of her adult life struggling with alcohol and cocaine addiction which she used to cope with trauma experienced. Now clean and sober she has experienced "no more drama" from addictions.
Who is Mary J Blige?
300
A treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment and an individual's life experience. People engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences.
What is Addiction?
(ASAM Definition)
300
You can have ups and downs along the way but what matters most is that you keep moving forward. If that is true, then you are steadily making this... (not perfection)
What is Progress?
300
Physical activity that releases natural endorphins which help you feel good, relieves stress, and diminishes feelings of depression.
What is Exercise?
300
The legal way to obtain drugs even though life may be spiraling out of control with dependency clearly increasing.
What is Prescription?
300
She had a hit pop song which come out a few years before her death which was the result of alcohol intoxication. Her popular song ironically reference going to "Rehab".
Who is Amy Winehouse?
400
Physical and mental symptoms that a person has when they suddenly stop or cut back the use of an addictive substance. Having hangover is classified as one.
What is Withdrawal?
400
An internal dialogue that makes a person feel good about themselves. A person can use it to think optimistically and feel motivated. Identifying the opposite is the first step towards thinking more positively.
What is Positive self-talk?
400
A skill that requires you to ride the wave of a trigger or craving by find two or three things like going for a run, attending a meeting, or meeting up with your sponsor to take your mind off the trigger.
What is Distraction?
400
The vast majority of people who use this legal plant use it as often as 10 or 20 times a day despite knowing it is the number one killer of all addictive substances in the world.
What is Tobacco?
400
A daytime talk show host, she has lived the majority of her life in the spotlight. She first went to rehab at the age of 13 for drug and alcohol addiction but now reports being sober.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
500
Feelings, individuals, or situations that cause your brain to crave substances; if you are unaware of them, they could be a factor for relapse.
What are Triggers?
500
If you find and discover this it can help you define your goals and add meaning and direction to your life.
What is purpose?
500
The simple practice of looking after your own physical and mental health in ways that support a good quality of life and prevent illness or endangerment.
What is Self-care?
500
A mental state of hallucinations and extreme paranoid delusions caused by prolonged use of stimulants such as cocaine, speed, and methamphetamine.
What is Psychosis (Or stimulant-induced psychosis)?
500
A iconic pop, rock, and R&B artist, he died of an accidental fentanyl overdose at age 57 in his home in Minnesota.
Who is Prince?