Recovery
Combined with Alcohol
Withdrawal
Startling Statistics
Wild Card
100

Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.

What is a coping skill?

100

When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an abnormally rapid heart rate and amplified impairment of cognitive, psychomotor, and driving performance.

What is Cannabis? (Marijuana) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

100
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
100

Each year in the Canada, nearly 18,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.

What is alcohol? 

100
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
200
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gambler's Anonymous are all examples of programs with this type of format that can support you in recovery.
What are 12-Step Fellowships?
200

When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than either drug alone.

What is cocaine?

200
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
200

What is an example of a stimulant and what are the side effects if you ingest it?

Cocaine, crack cocaine, meth, speed etc.

Increased blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, decrease appetite and decreased ability  to sleep.

200
This recovery network was established in the 1940s and started in California. It asserts that its therapeutic value for aiding people in recovery is that the program is based on people helping people.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
300
One of these prescribed and federally regulated medications can help an opiate addicted individual start recovering from their addiction and structuring his or her life again.
What is Methadone, Suboxone, and Naltrexone.
300

This drug slows both heart rate and respiration, which can be fatal when mixed with alcohol.

What are Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Anxiolytics as well as opiates? (Heroin, oxycontin, percocet, morphine, Xanax, Librium, Valium, Benadryl, Ambien)

300
Withdrawal from this drug can cause restless behavior, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, vivid and unpleasant dreams and slowing of daily activity.
What is cocaine?
300
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What is both male and female genders.
300
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
400

What is the APP that we suggest that you use after you graduate from the program to help keep yourself accountable in recovery?

What is Breaking Free

400

What drug used to be legal and was marketed as a non-addictive cough suppressant?

What is Heroin.

400
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
400
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.
Who are newborn babies?
400

What is the most common drug that is abused?

What is Alcohol.

500

What is the difference between sober and dry? 

What is? Sober is working a 12-step program and not using/drinking or using any mind altering substances. Dry is not using substances but not following a 12 step program.

500

When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an increased risk of nausea, irregular heart rate, cardiovascular instability, loss of consciousness and or coma.

What is opiates?

500
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, drowsiness, insomnia, iritability, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety.
What is nicotine?
500
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
500

If you had to guess what the percentage of people in Canada who struggle with substance use disorder, what would it be? 

What is 21% or 6 million people

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