Recovery
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)
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol?
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
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?
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)
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
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?
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?
provide an example of "changing the subject"
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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) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
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?
Are Genetics or environmental factors thought to play a bigger role in the onset of addiction?
Both are thought to play equal roles in the onset of addiction.
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
“True or false: if you want to use someone else’s needle, cleaning it with bleach makes it totally safe.”
False: Hep C lives up to 2 years in a needle or 2 weeks outside a needle.
Is when the Blood alcohol level is so high is considered to be Toxic/ Poisonous
What is Alcohol Poisoning?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.
Who are newborn babies?
How long can a snail sleep for?
for 3 years!
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.
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects, and may result in dangerously low blood pressure.
What is an inhalant?
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?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco?
What is the only animal that can't jump?
What is an Elephant