Recovery
Support Groups
Brain
12 Steps & 12 Traditions
Hillside
100

Which stage of change is missing?

1) Pre-contemplative 

2) Contemplative 

3)

4)Action

5) Maintenance 

Preparation

100

What year did AA start?

1935

100

The human brain weighs as much as a ___________. 

A) Donut

B)A can of soda 

C) Chihuahua 

Chihuahua

100

What is Step One of the 12 Steps? 

We admitted we are powerless over alcohol, that our lives have become unmanagable. 

100

What is Monica and Samara's last names?

Perez & Gallagher

200

What's the name of the medication that is designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose? 

Naloxone/Narcan 

200

What city did AA start in? 

Akron, Ohio 

200

When someone uses drug repeatedly, their brain __________.

A) Becomes trained to crave the drug

B) Becomes smaller than before

C) Increases in plasticity 

 Becomes trained to crave the drug

200

What number tradition of the 12 traditions of NA is this.....

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. 

Third Tradition 

200

What's the cat's name that lives at Hillside?

Census

300

___________ is the use of FDA-approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies to provide a "whole patient" approach to the treatment of substances use disordered. 

Medicated Assisted Treatment (MAT)

300

What are the four Absolutes of AA? 

Honesty, unselfishness, purity, and love. 

300

Neurons in the brain communicate with each other by....

Releasing chemicals 

300

What is Step Four? 

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 

300

Who is more likely to kill a plant, Samara or Monica?

Samara

400

What month do we celebrate National Recovery Month? 

September 

400

What word is most used in the big book?

Power 

400
People addicted to drugs tend to have damage to a part of the brain responsible for judgement and impulse control. It is ....

Prefrontal Cortex 

400

What is the spiritual foundation of all the NA Traditions? 

Anonymity

400

What is Monica's fish's name? 

Rosie 

500

What are four cognitive distortions? 

Magnification, minimization, overgeneralization, magical thinking, personalization, jumping to conclusions, emotional reasoning, disqualifying the positives, "should" statements, all-or-nothing/black and white thinking, mind reading, labeling.....

500

What are the five C's of AA?

Conviction, Confession, Contrition , Conversion, Continuance


500

Dopamine is 

A) Type of white matter in the brain that receives messages in the cerebrum.

B) A natural chemical in the brain that carries  messages in the parietal lobes.

C) A natural chemical in the brain that carries messages in the limbic system. 

D)Type of gray matter in the brain that receives messages in the parietal lobes.

A natural chemical in the brain that carries messages in the limbic system.

500

Recite three of the 12 steps of AA? 

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. 

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. 

500

What counselor has been here the longest? (Not including leadership) 

Stephanie 

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