Recovery
Combined with Alcohol
Withdrawal
Startling Statistics
Wild Card
100
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, calling a sober friend, and playing the tape are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
100
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates a deadly cocktail.
What are Benzo's?
100
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
100
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?
100
The 3rd and 5th stage of change.
What is Preparation and Maintenance?
200
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gambler's Anonymous are all examples of programs with this type of format.
What are 12-Step Fellowships?
200
When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than ingesting either drug alone.
What is cocaine?
200
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
200
This drug has the highest Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Programs.
What is alcohol? 26.1% according to www.drugabuse.gov
200
This recovery network was established in the 1940s and started in California.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
300
Medically prescribed and federally regulated, one of these medications can help an opiate addict start recovering from their addiction and begin structuring his/her life again.
What is Methadone, Suboxone, and Naltrexone?
300
This drug slows both heart rate and respiration, which can be fatal when mixed with alcohol.
What are Sedatives, Hypnotics, Anxiolytics and Opiates? (Heroin, oxycontin, percocet, morphine, Xanax, Librium, Valium, Benadryl, Ambien)
300
Withdrawal from this drug can cause restless behavior, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, vivid and unpleasant dreams and slowing of daily activity.
What is cocaine?
300
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What is both male and female genders?
300
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
400
A set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use.
What is harm reduction?
400
Statistically, when combined with alcohol this day of the year is the most deadly.
What is the 4th of July?
400
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
400
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.
Who are newborn babies?
400
Favorite Instructor at SJCC.
Who is Pauline Casper?
500
Hostility or aggression, Anxiety, Irritability and mood swings, Depression, Exhaustion, Inability to sleep.
What is Post-Acute-Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
500
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?
500
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, insomnia, irritability, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety.
What is nicotine?
500
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco?
500
This drug was discontinued as a anesthetic in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.
What is PCP?
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