Withdraw Symptoms
Withdrawal symptoms of this substance can cause insomnia, sweating, tremors, hallucinations, and seizures
What is alcohol?
The organ that metabolizes, or breaks down, alcohol
What is the liver?
Any chemical substance that causes a change in an organism's physiology or psychology when consumed.
What is a drug?
The hospital that Bill W was treated for alcoholism.
What is Towns Hospital, NY?
This happens when the body becomes used to a drug and needs larger and larger amounts to produce the same effects.
What is tolerance?
Withdrawal symptoms of this substance include frequent yawning, hot/cold sweats, and flu-like symptoms
What is heroin/opioids?
This is defined for males as drinking 5+ drinks in a two hour period and for females drinking 4+ drinks in a two hour period.
What is binge drinking?
When heroin is combined with cocaine.
What is speedballing?
The city where Dr. Bob and Bill W met.
What is Akron, OH?
This drug increases the activity of the central and sympathetic nervous systems.
What are stimulants?
Withdrawal symptoms from these substances include paranoia, depressed mood, tiredness, and increased appetite
What are stimulants?
Condition caused by alcohol use that includes facial deformities, growth deficiency, and mental retardation.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
This drug is still used as a localized, external anaesthetic.
What is cocaine?
The three sides of the Triangle- AA's three legacies.
What are Unity, Service and Recovery?
The three different classes of drugs.
What are stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens?
True or False: you can't die from withdrawal
what is false?
The size of a standard drink.
What is 12oz of beer, 5oz of wine, or 1.5oz of liquor?
Bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, blackouts, limb spasms, hearing loss and the loss of brain cells are consequences from abusing what type of drugs?
What are inhalants?
The step when you continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong, you admit it.
What is Step 10?
When withdrawal symptoms are caused by medications or MAT used in substance abuse treatment rather than absence or abstinence from the chosen drug of abuse.
What are precipitated withdrawals?
Three factors that affect the severity and duration of your withdraw
1. how long you had been using for
2. the amount of the substance you were using
3. other co-existing health conditions: diabetes, depression, or high blood pressure
These three factors affect your blood alcohol level.
Weight, number of drinks/amount of time, gender
This drug, which rose to popularity in the 1980's, gets it's name from the sound it makes when being smoked.
What is crack?
Published in 1939, this is the common name for the text from which our fellowship gets it's name.
What is the Big Book?
A condition that is similar to alcohol but is caused by drinking too much alcohol.
What is Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome or "Wet Brain"?