Triggers/Cravings
Anything that provokes a memory or impulse to resume using drugs or alcohol, especially for a person who is in recovery or has completed a substance abuse treatment program.
Triggers
Strategies someone in recovery can use in order to prevent relapse.
Coping Skills
We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become _____________.
Umanageable
What is the nickname for the recovery literature used in NA?
The Basic Text
Binge drinking is more common in this gender.
Men
The desire for the previously experienced effects of a psychoactive drug.
Cravings
Friends, family, group members, and counselors are all examples of this.
Social Supports/Support Network
We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to _______.
Sanity
Who founded AA?
Dr. Bob and Bill Wilson
More people receive treatment for ________ than any other substance.
Alcohol
List 5 examples of external relapse triggers.
- Old using friends
- Old "playgrounds"
- Seeing people who are drunk/high
- Images of someone's drug of choice
- Images of drug paraphernalia
-Etc.
This mindfulness activity has been scientifically proven to increase positive moods, and help with emotional regulation, when practiced daily.
Journaling
We made a searching and fearless ___________ of ourselves.
Moral Inventory
When was NA founded?
1953
This substance causes more deaths each year than all other substance abuse related deaths combined.
Tobacco
The main neurotransmitter that is released when someone tries their drug of choice for the first time.
Dopamine
Someone in recovery that helps you work through the 12 Steps, and that you can turn to for support.
Sponsor
We were entirely ready to have God remove...
… all these defects of character.
Who founded NA?
Jimmy Kinnon
Over 11% of Americans have ________ under the influence.
Driven
The area of the brain that reads Dopamine and Serotonin, and is also part of the reward circuit.
Nucleus Accumbens
This coping skill is used to help lower heart rate when having an anxiety attack.
Complete or Extended Deep Breathing
We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when...
… to do so would injure them or others.
Where was AA founded?
Akron, Ohio
Overdoses caused by _________ are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
Painkillers