RECOVERY
Admitting you have a problem
What is the first step to recovering?
withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is alcohol?
Making a list and become willing to make amends.
What is Step Eight?
Body skill/exercise commonly used to decrease anxiety
What is deep breathing?
Emotional, physical, or mental events that cause a response which can send you sliding back into active addiction are called ___________.
What are triggers?
________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is Dopamine?
This drug can be made in small batches, with hazardous household and farm chemicals.
What is Meth?
A spiritual transformation that occurs as a result of taking the Steps.
What is step twelve?
Having an attitude of ____________ helps people stay sober, live longer and happier, and have better relationships.
What is gratitude?
Old friends, hangouts, possessions, or paraphernalia
What are people, places, and things?
Recovery requires 100% ______ with the people who are your supports: your family, your doctor, your therapist, the people in your 12 step group, and your sponsor.
What is honesty?
People sit together and explore ways to recover from addiction and mental health symptoms and learn about their disease.
What are educational groups or group therapy?
Published in 1939
What is the Big Book?
The most frequent "action" recommended when you want to "use"
What is call your sponsor or go to a meeting?
Worry about what may or may not happen in the future.
What is anxiety?
A document that states a specific problem you want to work on, your goal for that problem, and what you are going to do to obtain that goal.
What is a treatment plan?
This stage of recovery tends to include: boredom, cravings, and seeking of excitement.
What is the Wall?
We continue to attend meetings years after the problem that first brought us to recovery has passed.
What is keep coming back? / What is maintenance or working a program?
This type of communication uses "I" statements and is a great tool for setting boundaries
What is being Assertive?
Rationalizing negative behaviors based on negative self view, inability to make safe or healthy choices because of feeling "I can't do better, that's what I deserve"
What is low self worth?
A person in recovery may continue to experience symptoms of emotional/psychological withdrawal for up to two years. This is known as ___
What is PAWS?
A document that details how you will continue your recovery after you graduate treatment.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan and discharge plan?
Twelve-step programs recommend this activity to "get out yourself or get out of your own head"
What is HALT?
You can use this to change negative thoughts to positive thoughts.
What is reframing?
What is the most common relapse trigger? Learning to manage it should be a top priority.
What are cravings?