Recovery Facts
With continued substance abuse the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure..
What is Dopamine?
Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Who is Bill Wilson (Bill W.) or Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith (Dr. Bob)?
Substance with a high death rate in the U.S., higher than suicide
What is Fentanyl?
A place to go to "abstain from substances under medical care and supervision."
What is Detox?
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?
What is one example of a way to be of service in a twelve step program?
What is Chair a meeting, make coffee, hold a service position at the area level, volunteer in H&I, phone line?
What is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result?
What is Insanity?
Ther term used when an individual has both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder
What is Co-Occurring Disorder or Dual Diagnosis?
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger?
What is the "opposite of isolation?"
What is connection?
A phase in the beginning of recovery where individuals feel euphoric and overly optimistic about recovery, often followed by challenges.
What is "the pink cloud?"
Don't quit before this happens?
What is "the Miracle?
True or False? Surrendering=Weakness.
Name the stages of change.
What are pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance?
The goal is P_________ not P_________.
What is Progress not Perfection?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a Craving?
This is the only requirement for membership in the NA fellowship.
What is the desire to stop using?
What is the most important thing to have going into the recovery process?
What is Willingness/ open-mindedness?
Our brain learns by R_________ and R_________
What is Repetition and Reward?
What weighs 1000lbs if you aren't used to picking it up when you are struggling?
What is the phone?
Name the four styles of communication.
What is passive, assertive, aggressive, passive aggressive?
What is the cardinal rule of all AA/NA meetings?
What is Anonymity?
An apology without change is ______.
What is manipulation?
Our _____ keep us sick.
What are secrets?
What is P. A.W. S.?
What is Post-Acute-Withdrawal-Syndrome?
True or False? Addiction is a moral deficiancy
False?
It is a disease that is recognised in the DSM-V.
What state was AA started?
What is Ohio?
What step involves a daily inventory?
What is the 10th step?
A disorder characterized by the repeated, compulsion, seeking or use of a substance despite adverse, social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance as times goes on to achieve the same effect
What is Addiction?
The step you have to practice every single day.
What is Step 1?
The experience of having episodes of anxiety with confusion or hallucinations as a results of substance abuse or a certain psychiatric disorder?
What is Psychosis
Something greater than themselves in recovery
What is a Higher Power?
What are the alternatives to recovery?
Hint: there are 3.....
What are Jails, Institutions and Death?
Where was NA created?
What is Los Angeles, California?
What does EOP stand for?
What is Extended Outpatient Program?
Professional specializing in treating mental & emotional disorders is known as...
What is Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Therapist, Counselor?
Addiction is a disease of this body part...
What is the brain?
Housing that many people choose to live in after completing in-patient treatment.
What is Sober Living/3.1?
What are the phrases called that you can say to yourself to build self-confidence.
Affirmations?
Used to reverse heroin/opiate overdose...
What is Narcan or Naloxone, Kloxado?
What year was NA created?
When was 1953?
What is the number one action to get outside of self?
What is being of service or helping others?
What does HALT stand for?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired?
What does CBT stand for?
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
The withdrawal from these two substances can be fatal?
What is Alcohol and Benzos?
With continued substance abuse the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure..
What is Dopamine?
The most important person at any NA meeting.
Bonus 100 if you can say why
Who is the new comer?
What is Because we keep what we have by giving it away?
When was AA originally created?
When was 1935?
What is one of the biggest factors in maintaining long term sobriety?
What is a strong support system, or network?
An international peer-led mutual aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually-inclined Twelve Step program.
What is AA?
A____ is always necessary for an individual to take control of their future sobriety and avoid future relapse.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
What does IOP stand for?
What is Intensive Outpatient Program?
Principals over _____?
Personalities?
Who originally formed NA?
Who is Jimmy K.
This means the physical need for a substance and usually involves withdrawals?
What is dependence?
What is the opposite of Addiction?
What is Recovery?
"Exposure to ________ is associated with drug addiction in humans and can induce relapse and craving."
What is Stress?
This television host and former child star frequently shares about her long-term sobriety and recovery journey with audiences. Due to her early introduction to Hollywood, her addictions started at age 11.
Drew Barrymoore
This recovery concept refers to returning to old thinking patterns or emotional behaviors before a physical relapse occurs.
What is emotional relapse?
What does H.O.W stand for?
What step is it when a person with time dates a new comer?
What is the 13th step?
This increases as you continue to drink/use, requiring you to need more of your substance to feel the same high.
What is Tolerance?