12 Steps/Traditions of AA
What is the name of this prayer: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the thing I can, and the wisdom to know the difference?
What is, the Serenity Prayer
What is the official name for NA?
What is, Narcotics Anonymous
This is also the official name of "The Little White Book", which actually forms the basis and outline of our "Basic Text".
Talking, Listening, Sharing, Expressing
Definition: a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior exchange of information
What is Communication
Listening to other addicts share without judging them is the beginning of listening to our own heart without judgment or punishment. We make peace with ourselves--with all we have gained, and lost, and learned, and become. Definition: The action or process of being received as adequate or suitable.
What is Acceptance
True or False? Once you have a Mental Illness, you'll never be Mentally Healthy again.
What is, False
Research based on surveys of 970 people in recovery in England identified over 65%
of those surveyed recovered from mental illness. It is 66.5% in America.
What is the Twelfth Tradition of NA/AA?
What is, "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.”
Bill Wilson developed what program of recovery?
What is the 12-Steps
Counting to 10, Breathing, Positive self-talk, Consequential thinking, Grounding, stress management
What is Coping Skills or Meditation
The antidote to our diseased thinking. The most important tool in learning to live for today” (Narcotics Anonymous [NA], 1988, p. 92). You never will solve problems if you lie. You need to live in the facts. In sobriety, you must commit yourself to reality.
What is Honesty
True or False? Over 96,700 people die from drug overdoses in a year. The national OD rate is 21.6 deaths per 100,000 residents.
What is, True
Drug overdoses have killed almost a million people since 1999.
This step reveals character and your willingness to recovery.
What is Step 6
In what year was AA Founded?
What is, 1935
In Akron, Ohio, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, two recovering alcoholics, found Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), a 12-step rehabilitation program that eventually helps countless people cope with alcoholism.
The ability to control your emotions and actions, especially in the face of temptations and impulses. It is a cognitive process that helps you regulate your behavior to achieve specific goals. It is also a form of restraint exercised over your impulses, emotions, or desires.
Understanding that we are not unique. Most easily identified as an acceptance of who we truly are—neither worse nor better than we believed we were when we were using, just human.
What is Humility
True or False? Recovery is being entirely symptom free.
False
Recovery is on a continuum just as Mental Illness and Mental Health are on a
continuum. For some, recovery is symptom free and for others it is living life differently.
When are you an AA member?
What is, "When you say so." pg. 139 Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Where did Alcoholics Anonymous start?
What is, Akron, Ohio
Relaxation, walking, healthy eating, proper sleep, setting aside "me" time, taking breaks, rewarding yourself
What is Self-Care
The quality of honestly upholding and sticking to your values. It's the consistent application of spiritual principles, no matter what the circumstances or who's watching.
What is Integrity
True or False? Addiction cannot be genetic.
False
Research suggests alcohol addiction is about 50 percent heritable, while addiction to other drugs is as much as 70 percent heritable.
Narcotics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the NA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
What is, Tradition 10
Who founded Narcotics Anonymous in Los Angeles, California, for the purpose of helping its members stop using addictive substances.
What is, James Patrick Kinnon aka Jimmy K.
Maintain limits with self and others, protecting your personal and emotional space, avoid negativity, saying the word "no" is a full sentence.
What is Setting or maintaining boundaries
The principle that keeps us sober. Carry the message to the addict who still suffers.
What is Service or Being of Service.
True or False? 40 million Americans ages 12 and older have substance problems, but addiction and substance abuse does not affect more Americans than heart conditions, diabetes or cancer.
False
Addiction and substance abuse DOES affect more Americans than heart conditions, diabetes, or cancer.