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?
Three spiritual principles that are indispensable are...
What are Honesty, Open-mindedness, and willingness
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
Each year in the United States, nearly 88,000 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?
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?
This step requires a fearless moral inventory that is meant to draw out bad behaviors and defects of character.
What is the 4th Step
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
•The estimated cost of drug abuse in the United States—including illegal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco— This includes drug related crime, drug related death, law enforcement, etc.
What is is more than $820 billion a year and growing.
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?
A modular evidence informed approach to help children, adults, and families in times of crisis.
What is Psychological First-Aid
The first 12 step fellowship, 'Alcoholics Anonymous' was created in 1935 by a New York stock broker and an Akron Ohio physician. Their names were.
Who is Dr. Bob (Robert Schmidt) and Bill W. (Bill Wilson)
Two categories of drugs can result in death from sudden withdraw.
What are alcohol and benzodiazepines
This gender is more likely to start using drugs.
What is the male gender.
A fellowship of men and women sharing experience strength and hope in order to recover. Started in 1935.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous
A model of treatment that involves treating a person in the categories of Emotional, Interpersonal, Mental, Environmental, Wealth, Physical, Professional.
What is the Whole Person Model.
"Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live. Clean!"
What is the 3rd step prayer
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 term refers to an emerging family of drugs containing one or more synthetic chemicals related to an amphetamine-like stimulant found naturally in the Khat plant. Some users experience paranoia, agitation, and hallucinations; some even display psychotic and violent behavior, and deaths have been reported in several instances.
What is "bath salts"? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
What are the 4 D's of relapse prevention
Delay, Distract, De-Stress, De-Catastrophize
"My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen."
What is the 7th step prayer
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? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Acceptance and Honesty are the foundation principles of this step.
What is Step 1