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) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
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? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
After some time of using drugs or alcohol the brain will produce this.
What is cravings?
When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than either drug alone.
What is amphetamines? (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 weighs about 3 pounds, about the size of a Chihuahua.
What is YOUR BRAIN?
This recovery approach encourages small steps and positive changes
What is harm reduction?
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 Amphetamines?
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What is both male and female genders.
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
People, places, things
What are triggers?
When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior, but more research is needed.
What are Anabolic Steroids? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
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?
This is about 100 times stronger than morphine and 0.25 milligrams can kill you.
What is Fentanyl?
The biggest barrier to recovery in the general population
What is attitude?
Combined with Alcohol, a person may drink more alcohol and become more impaired than they realize, increasing the risk of alcohol-attributable harms.
What is caffeine?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause Headaches, Chills, Irritability, Anxiety, Depression, Shakiness, Low appetite or losing weight, Extreme sweating, Restlessness, Stomach pain, Difficulty sleeping, Tiredness during the day
What is THC?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
A pile of kittens.
What is a meowntain?