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?
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)
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?
When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than either drug alone.
What is cocaine?
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.
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)
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
What drug used to be legal and was marketed as a non-addictive cough suppressant?
What is Heroin.
What is the most common drug that is abused?
What is Alcohol.
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.
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?
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