Random Recovery Questions
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?
produced by the fermentation of yeast, sugars, and starches.
What is Alcohol?
a disease that affects a person's brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medication.
What is substance use disorder?
a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
A desire or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time, no matter the costs.
What is a goal?
These 2 words are found nowhere in the 12 steps
What is drugs and narcotics?
A negative or irrational patterns of thinking
What a Cognitive Distortions?
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)
the leading cause of death in people 18-45
What is Fentanyl
What are the three most important spiritual principles?
What is honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness?
A communication style in which individuals appear passive on the surface but are really acting out anger in a subtle, indirect, or behind-the-scenes way
What is passive aggressive?
What are possible health affects due to heavy and/or binge drinking?
Some high-risk situations to avoid are to not let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired. What can help you remember these circumstances?
What is H.A.L.T?
What are the requirements for membership?
What is "a desire to stop using?"
An integrative theory of therapy that assesses an individual's readiness to act on a new healthier behavior, and provides strategies, or processes of change to guide the individual.
What is the Transtheoretical Model? OR (5 Stages of Change)
All states in the United States have adopted as the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle for drivers aged 21 years or older
What is 0.08% (80 mg/dL)?
________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is Dopamine?
What do we come to pray for in Step 11?
What is the knowledge of our higher power's will and the power to carry it out