Recovery
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
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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 death.
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.
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What is assertiveness?
The ability to look inside yourself honestly.
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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)
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.
Hint: It is in the billions
What is 600 Billion?
Sometimes addiction stems in deeply disturbing and/ or sometimes terrifying situations. This is known as"
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What is Trauma?
It is essential to learn to eliminate this negative emotion which stems from holding on to anger and grudges.
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What is Resentment.
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 are stimulants?
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What are both male and female genders. There is an equal chance.
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
If you find and discover this it can help you define your goals and add meaning and direction in your life.
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What is Purpose?
When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior, but more research is needed.
What are 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 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.
What is "bath salts"? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
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.
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What is a cactus? "could go for three years without water and not die"
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)
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, drowsiness, insomnia, irritability, 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)
This drug as an approved anesthetic in humans and was discontinued in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.
What is PCP?