Relapse Prevention
Early Recovery
NA/AA
Possible Health Effects of Substance Use
Movies about Substance use and Recovery
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This is often a precursor to relapse and a common trigger for many and can look like disinterest or disconnection from supports

What is complacency

100
activities, situations, or settings in which you frequently used substances.
What is External trigger
100
The basic text for Alcoholics Anonymous
What is the Big Book
100
Narrowed blood vessels, increased body temperature, abdominal pain, heart rhythm problems, loss of sense of smell, infection and death of bowel tissue.
What is cocaine
100
The story of Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock), a successful New York writer living in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl -- until she gets drunk with boyfriend Jasper (Dominic West), borrows her sister's (Elizabeth Perkins) wedding limo and earns herself a stay in court-ordered rehab
What is 28 days
200

a disruption of recovery, often the result of a gradual movement away from abstinence.

What is Relapse 

200
Someone who helps guide a newcomer through the processes of NA or AA
What is a Sponsor
200

"Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. We know! Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another—the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs. We are people in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always the same: jails, institutions, and death."

What is NA's defintion of Who is an addict

200
heavy feeling in hands and feet, clouded thinking, itching, nausea, slowed breathing, collapsed veins, abscesses, liver/kidney disease, pneumonia.
What is heroin
200
This film reconstructs the true story of stockbroker William Griffith Wilson (James Woods), a World War I veteran whose small drinking problem becomes a serious addiction after he loses his fortune in the stock market collapse of 1929. Wilson's career and his domestic life are in tatters when he meets Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith (James Garner), also struggling with a drinking problem. The two form a support group that becomes the basis for the organization Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is My Name is Bill W.
300

feeling bad about things one has done or failed to do. Often a part of people's responses to substance uses.

What is Guilt 

300

an important part of the recovery process that helps people map out their time.

What is scheduling/routine

300
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step 1 of AA
300
enhanced sensory perception, drowsiness, slowed reaction time, appetite, chronic cough, frequent respiratory infections.
What is marijuana
300
Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) is consumed by his life as a high school basketball star. Pressured by a wicked coach and a concerned mother , Jim develops an appetite for heroin. Soon, the mean streets of New York City have replaced the basketball court as his main destination. Jim and his friends scrounge, steal and prostitute themselves to score drugs. Jim's only chance to escape addiction may be Reggie, a neighborhood friend and hoops companion.
What is Basketball Diaries.
400
not using any substances that will interfere with the brains ability to heal and decision making.
What is Total Abstinence
400
A sequence of things necessary to disrupt the process of triggers turning into relapse
What is Thought- Stopping Techniques
400
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
What is the Serenity prayer
400
drowsiness, nausea, constipation, confusion, slowed breathing, and dangerous slowing of heart rate if combined with alcohol.
What is prescription opioids.
400
Clay (Andrew McCarthy) comes home to Los Angeles after his first semester of college and encounters some disturbing developments. His former lover,model Blair , has begun to abuse cocaine. But her addiction pales in comparison to the drug dependency of her new boyfriend, Julian (Robert Downey Jr.), who's also Clay's childhood buddy. Clay tries to help them get sober, but the process is complicated by Rip, a callous dealer Julian is indebted to.
What is Less than Zero
500

Reasons we tell our selves it is okay to do addictive behaviors or use.

What is Justification 

500

Certain feelings or emotions that often bring the brain back to think about using substances.

What is internal triggers

500

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.

What is NA tradition 

500
Greatly increased risk of: lung caner, oral caner, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, leukemia, cataracts, and pneumonia.
What is tobacco
500
The rise of a country music legend Johnny Cash begins with his days as a boy growing up on the family farm, where he struggles under the scorn of his father. As the years pass, Cash ends up in Memphis, Tenn., with his wife, Vivian, and breaks into the music scene after finding his trademark sound. While on tour, Cash meets the love of his life, singer June Carter, but Cash's volatile lifestyle threatens to keep them apart.
What is Walk the Line.
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