Coping Skills
This grounding method uses your 5 senses.
5-4-3-2-1 technique
This brain chemical is linked to pleasure and reward.
Dopamine
This medical organization defines addiction as a chronic brain disease.
American Medical Association (AMA)
This 12-step slogan reminds people to focus on today only.
“One day at a time”
Skipping meetings, groups, or support calls is called this.
Isolation / disengaging from support
This coping strategy involves allowing urges to rise and fall without acting on them.
Urge surfing
Substances can hijack this system in the brain.
Reward System
This law ended alcohol prohibition in the United States in 1933.
The 21st Amendment
Attending meetings regularly helps build this important recovery factor.
Accountability
Thinking “I can handle just one” is a type of ______ thinking.
Rationalization
Name one healthy way to respond to a trigger instead of using.
Call support, go for walk, grounding, meeting, journaling
Exercise helps increase natural mood boosters called ______.
Endorphins
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in this decade.
The 1930s
Repairing harm done in the past is called making ______.
Amends
When someone remembers only the “good times” of using.
Romanticizing use
This activity helps release stress chemicals and boost mood.
Exercise
Poor sleep can increase this in recovery.
Cravings / irritability
The “War on Drugs” began during the presidency of this U.S. leader.
Richard Nixon
Helping others in recovery strengthens your own through this principle.
Service
Increased irritability, anxiety, or mood swings can be early ______ signs.
Emotional relapse signs
This CBT skill challenges negative or irrational thoughts.
Cognitive restructuring
The HALT acronym reminds us to watch out for these four vulnerable states.
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired
This class of drugs has driven multiple overdose epidemics in the U.S
Opioids
Meetings like AA/NA provide this.
Community
Hanging out again with people you used with is a ______ risk.
High-risk behavior