Relapse Prevention Skillz
Triggers
Definitions
The Twelve Steps
Potpourri
100

The best tool for managing time when you are first starting out in recovery

What is a Schedule?

100

The people, places, things, and events that cause thoughts and cravings about drug use

What are External Triggers?

100

The process of falling back or returning to a previous state of behavior.

What is Relapse?

100

Groups designed to help people with the desire to stop using drugs and alcohol reach their goals

What are Twelve Step Meetings?

or AA Meetings...

or NA Meetings...

100

A desire, or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time

What are goals?

200

These are the methods used to change the drug-using thoughts we are experiencing to something else

What are Thought-Stopping Techniques?

200

Objects that stimulate the senses of a person that they quickly associate with drug use

What are Sensory Triggers?

200

The overindulgence in or dependence upon a substance, especially alcohol and other drugs.

What is Addiction?

or

What is Substance Abuse?

200

The step that asks you to look upon your past behaviors that need changing to continue in your recovery

What is Step Four?

200

The process on how our brains learn and continue behaviors

DD!

What is Repetition and Reward?

300

The use of your imagination to create detailed mental images to help you emotionally or to help make decisions

What are Visualization Techniques?

300

The simplest way to deal with your triggers in recovery

What is Avoidance?

300

The physical and mental symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing your intake of a drug.

What is Withdrawal?

300

The concept of making restitution to others that you have wronged in the past

What is Making Amends? 

300

The state of being aware of what is happening in the present moment

What is Mindfulness?

400

The different types of tools that a person uses in order to help them deal with their triggers and cravings. 

What are Coping Skills?

400

The four feelings that you need to keep monitoring that relate to the state of your physical and psychological well-being 

DD!

What is H.A.L.T.?

(Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired)

400

The brain's chemicals that send messages throughout the body and determine your emotions

What are Neurotransmitters?

400

This step involves you focusing on your behavior in the current day to help recognize areas of improvement 

What is Step Ten?

400

The act of looking out for yourself and keeping up on your hygiene and emotions

What is Self-Care?

500

Gives you benefits such as increased physical and emotional well-being, improving your sleep, giving you more energy, reducing stress and anxiety, and produces more neurotransmitters

What is Exercise? 

500

Depression, Anxiety, and Loneliness are examples of this type of trigger

What are Internal Triggers?

500

The addicted mind's process of making excuses and lies to make it okay to use substances again

What is Relapse Justification?

500

The attitude that you have no special importance that makes you better than others

What is Humility?

500

The three classes used to define the psychoactive substances that are commonly abused

What are Stimulants, Psychedelics/Hallucinogens, and Depressants? 

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