Drug/Alcohol Effects on Body
Approximately 10-20% of people who abuse this alcohol over a long period of time may develop this disease.
What is cirrhosis/ fatty liver disease?
This step is about admitting one's self as powerless and life being unmanageable
What is Step 1?
This substance is a powerful addictive stimulant made from the leaves of a cocoa plant.
What is cocaine?
An orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
What is an intervention?
This class of prescription drugs have short term effects of impaired vision, motor coordination and speech, as well as confusion and impaired thinking. Breathing can become depressed and may result in coma or death.
What are depressants/sedatives? (Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan, Valium, or barbituates)
The most frequent problems experienced by this substance are increased heart rate and blood pressure, vomiting and tremors, paranoia, and acute kidney injury that can result in kidney failure.
What is marijuana?
The two co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous are named _________ and ___________.
Who is Dr. Bob Smith and Bill Wilson (just Bill & Dr. Bob is fine too)
This substance is synthetic and is made in laboratories, containing no natural ingredients.
What is fentanyl?
A form of treatment where the patient lives in a recovery facility.
What is Inpatient or Residential treatment?
Alcohol Use can result in these types of cancers.
Esophagus, mouth, throat, voice box, colon, breast, rectum.
Ingestion of this substance can result in gangrene (the death of soft tissue) in the intestines due to reduced blood flow in the digestive tract.
What is Crack/Cocaine?
This step includes a process of prayer and meditation as a method for improving connection with a higher power and asking for direction.
What is Step 11?
This substance is extracted from the Asian opium poppy plant.
What is Herion?
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is detox?
Use of this drug is known to result in many types cardiac problems and/or psychosis. Use of this drug during pregnancy can result in prenatal complications, such as premature delivery, abnormal reflexes and extreme irritability.
What are methamphetamines?
Sharing needles can lead to this serious infection that can be passed on to their sexual partners and children.
Hepatitis B/C, HIV.
This popular 12 step fellowship, originally started in 1982, is known for being all-inclusive.
What is Cocaine Anonymous? (CA)
This substance is usually made by combining ephedrine or pseudoephedrine with other chemicals that are often poisonous or highly flammable.
What is meth?
A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently that share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process.
What is a support group or recovery fellowship?
This substance is the fastest addicting substance. It can stain teeth, decrease stamina, wrinkle the skin, and if used by pregnant women, can increase the risk of SIDS in infants.
What is nicotine?
This designer drug is a combination of two powerful stimulants that produce effects lasting up to full days or weeks. Possible side effects include seizures, paranoia, increased heart rate, excess sweating, and attempts to try and tear off parts of their body.
What are bath salts?
This location, also known as the "Rubber Capital of the World" is also the birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous
What is Akron, OH?
This substance is made from a plant that produces mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, both of which have opioid-like effects. At low doses, mitragynine has stimulant effects similar to cocaine, but at higher dosages it has an effect more like morphine.
What is Kratom?
The need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. (In other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same "high".)
What is a tolerance?
Drinking alcohol interferes with sugar processing and with the hormones that regulate sugar levels. This can result in severely low levels of blood sugar called "___".
What is hypoglycemia?