Education
This is a blood-borne virus most commonly found amongst drug users.
What is Hep-C/HIV?
This is a slang term which defines the sudden stop of substances without professional help.
What is "cold turkey?"
This substance stays in your system the longest and shows up on drug tests long after you've stopped using it.
What is marijuana?
This is a person that a criminal or drug offender will need to report to in order to avoid further legal consequences.
What is a probation/parole officer?
This step involves sponsoring other people.
What is step 12?
This is the term is used to define the abuse of substances in an attempt to manage mental health symptoms.
What is self-medicating?
These are the 6 most difficult substances to quit.
What is:
Heroin/prescription painkillers, Cocaine, Methamphetamine/Crystal Meth, Benzodiazepines, Nicotine, Alcohol
This is what the acronym "CBT" stands for in treatment.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
Someone who is mandated by court to enter drug and alcohol treatment are usually sentenced to this amount of time there.
What is 90 days? (And up to a year)
These 2 things are the healthiest, cheapest, and most proactive ways to maintain conscious contact with a higher power and to stay of fit mind, body, and soul.
What is prayer and meditation?
This type of addiction is most commonly associated with alcohol addiction.
What is a gambling addiction?
These are 5 drugs that are found in nature which don't need to be synthetic or altered by man to get high.
What is Mushrooms, marijuana, opium (opiates), tobacco (nicotine), and coca (cocaine)?
Families are most at-fault for this behavior while their loved one suffers from addiction.
What is enabling?
This is the national average cost for receiving a DUI.
What is 10,000 dollars?
Alcoholics Anonymous calls their book, "The Big Book". This is what Narcotics Anonymous calls their book.
What is "The Basic Text"?
15 million currently suffer from addiction and only ____ percent will ever receive treatment.
What is 10 percent?
This substance has the longest "high".
What is PCP?
Addicts and alcoholics relapse the most (60%) at this amount of time sober.
What is 30 days?
This is a consequence for a parent where they can only spend time with their child in a controlled environment, usually with mandated reporters.
What is supervised/monitored visits?
This is claimed to be the hardest step of the 12-steps when surveying addicts and alcoholics.
What is Step 5? (This step asks us to admit "our wrongs" and to do so in front of our higher power and another person.)
This substance was originally used as an insecticide and identified as poison by a chemist.
What is nicotine?
These are 3 harmful substances used in the creation of Methamphetamine.
What is acetone, anhydrous ammonia, pseudoephedrine, hydrochloric acid, lithium, red phosphorous, toluene, sodium hydroxide, and sulfuric acid?
This a treatment approach which is designed to decrease the severity of consequences caused by substance abuse, but doesn't necessarily promote entire abstinence.
What is "Harm Reduction?"
This is the amount of jail time are you facing if you accidentally kill someone while drunk driving (involuntary manslaughter).
What is 10 years?
This is the longest recorded sobriety time in AA.
What is 71 years? (James Houck, attended meetings with Bill Wilson in 1935. This man passed away in 2006, but lived to be 100 years old!)