Recovery
Alcohol
Withdrawal
Startling Statistics
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Scenarios
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 United States, nearly 140,000 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?

100

You’re at Ray’s house. He makes fun of you because you don’t want to drink beer with him. What do you do?

Sayno

• Leave 

• Give reasons (i.e., Pick up my kids, go to work, )

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? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
200
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
200
Abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs is costly to the United States, exacting this amount annually in costs related to crime, lost work productivity and healthcare.
What is 600 Billion?
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?
200

Why do some people choose to use drugs when they know that these drugs are harmful?

People think that taking drugs will help them cope, feel cool, belong to a peer group, rebel and satisfy their curiosity.

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

Does alcohol make you feel more tired or awake?

Alcohol is a depressant and slows down the mind and body so it makes a person feel more tired

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

DAILY DOUBLE: 

This gender is more popular in substance use treatment.

What is male gender.

300


What does having an addiction mean?

 

A person addicted to a substance feels that he/she cannot do without the substance.


400
This addiction treatment program is located at 267 Boston Road Billerica, MA. 

What is Elevate Recovery Center.

400

DAILY DOUBLE: 

The number of minutes it takes for your brain to react to alcohol. 

What is 6 minutes. 

400

Elevate's (ERC) sister company name. 

What is Woburn Wellness. 

400
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.
Who are newborn babies?
400

What drug is in cigarettes that makes them highly addictive?

Nicotine. As well as nicotine, there are over 7,000 other chemicals in cigarettes with approximately 70 known to cause cancer.

500

In 1989,  the nation finally celebrated this month, nationally, to promote and support new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices, the nation’s strong and proud recovery community, and the dedication of service providers and communities who make recovery in all its forms possible. 

What is September.

500

This type of drinking is a pattern of alcohol consumption that involves drinking a lot in a short period of time. 

What is binge drinking. 

500

These 2 detoxes are located in Wilmington, MA. 

What is Mayflower and Banyan. 

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


 what age can someone legally buy cigarettes? 


19 years of age.

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