Recovery
Combined with Alcohol
Withdrawal
Startling Statistics
Wild Card
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

This percentage of people in recovery relapse at some point

What is about 40–60%

100

These staff members help maintain structure and safety in housing.

Who are housing staff.

Ashley, Ken and Toni

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

This is how many people in the U.S. struggle with substance use disorder (approximate)

What is over 20 million people?

200

These staff members helps you work on your treatment goals one-on-one.

Who is your counselor? 

Stephanie, Caleb and Kristen 

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
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)
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

This increases your chances of staying sober

What is having a support system?

300

This staff member helps oversee the program and make sure everything runs smoothly

Who is Brad

400
This is a virtual addiction Social Network with the purpose helping people with Drug Addiction, Alcoholism, Prescription Drug Addiction, Pain Killer Addiction and more.
What is intherooms.com?
400
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)
400
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
400

Recovery is considered this type of proces

What is ongoing/lifelong?

400

This is something you can do when you feel like giving up

Reach out, remind yourself why you started, use coping skills

500
Psychologist Milton Erickson asked an alcohol user struggling with sobriety to contemplate this plant, which subsequently caused the alcohol user to gain and maintain his sobriety.
What is a cactus? "could go for three years without water and not die"
500
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? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
500
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?
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

This is one way to show respect toward staff and the program.

Follow rules, communicate honestly, be on time, etc.

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