Big Book
What are the "essentials of recovery"?
Also known as spiritual principals
What is Honesty, Openmindedness, and Willingness
The only requirement for membership is...
What is a desire to stop using/drinking.
What is the most common withdrawal symptom of a severe alcoholic?
What are delirium tremens or DT's.
What is the stress hormone?
What is Cortisol.
What is Bill Wilson's wife's name.
Who is Lois Wilson
What is the name of the physician who wrote the "Doctor's Opinion" in the A.A. Big Book?
What is Dr. William Silkworth
Tradition 12 reminds us to place what before what?
What is principals before personalities.
When your use of one drug also increases your tolerance for another drug in the same class, this is known as...
What is cross tolerance.
The frontal cortex does not finish developing until what age.
What is age 25.
This was the original group that preceded the AA fellowship, having only 6 steps initially.
What is The Oxford group.
What is the Number ONE offender?
What is Resentments.
What is the person called who opens the meeting using that group’s format, and selects a topic for discussion.
What is The Chairperson.
The layman's term for Acute Retrograde Amnesia.
What is a Blackout.
After the blood brain barrier has been broken down due to stimulant abuse, even using just a small amount can trigger intense paranoia, even psychosis. This phenomenon is known as what?
What is Reverse Tolerance.
What city and state was the first AA meeting held?
What is Akron, Ohio
How did Hampshire Grenidere die.
Drinking cold small beer.
Tradition 5 states that,
Each group has but one primary purpose, to what?
What is carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
Box breathing and alternative nostril breathing are examples of coping strategies designed to stimulate what on a physiological level?
Hint: Part of the nervous system
What is stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system.
This action decreases the energy available for the sympathetic response, lowering cortisol levels and the flight or fight response.
This is the 'fight or flight' part of the brain.
What is the amygdala.
Dr. Bob is a real doctor, what was his area of practice?
What is proctology
In Bill's story what is his friend's name who "found religion"
Who is Ebby Thatcher
What is step 11?
What is '“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.”
Technical term for an inability to feel pleasure in early recovery, lasting from 6 months to 24.
What is Anhedonia.
This part of our brain is responsible for problem solving, judgment, and impulses.
What is the frontal cortex/ frontal lobe.
What was the one chapter in the Big Book NOT written by Bill W.?
What is "To Employers" written by Henry Parkhurst.