Acronyms In Recovery
AA
Alcoholics Anonymous
This self-care component reaps the following benefits: enhanced creativity, better problem solving, boosted immunity, and decreased stress levels. Sometimes involves getting horizontal.
What is rest?
What has a neck but no head?
A bottle
One of the addiction recovery slang terms used to describe the abrupt and complete stop of taking drugs.
What is Cold Turkey?
A strong desire to use a substance or an addictive agent.
What is a craving? (urge accepted as well)
"Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs"
What is Step 12?
This is the largest Animal on the planet.
What is a blue whale?
This drug as an approved anesthetic in humans and was discontinued in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.
What is PCP?
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
**DOUBLE POINTS**
What does the O stand for in the NOURISH self-care acronym?
Observe Your Breath
David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
David!
The use of marijuana before what age may have a negative impact on brain development?
25 years old.
Often involves a group of individuals, usually loved ones or close friends, who are ready to confront a person with addiction in an effort to persuade them to seek professional help for their substance abuse.
What is an intervention?
**Double Points**
"We came to believe that a Power grater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"
What is Step 2?
This technique is used by some animals to help hide from predators.
What is Camouflage?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
HOW
Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness
Spending at least this amount of time in nature will naturally release feel-good hormones
20 minutes
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge!
One of the greatest warning signs that we may be heading toward relapse. This can also mean you are too comfortable.
This is similar to what one would call a honeymoon phase for newlyweds. This syndrome is a stage in early addiction recovery the gives a person an often false sense of euphoria and confidence.
This book provides a more detailed look at each of the 12 steps and how they can be applied to different areas of life.
What is the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions?
Male members of this species give birth to their young, no the females.
What are Seahorses?
**DOUBLE POINTS**
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
GOD
Good Orderly Direction
Group Of Drunks
This activity has been shown to increase anti-anxiety levels by at least 26% and up to 80% when done for one hour
yoga
Who has married many women but was never married?
The Priest!
We are presented with a dilemma when NA members identify themselves as addicts and alcoholics or talk about living clean and sober, the clarity of then NA message is blurred. To speak in this manner suggests that there are two diseases, that one drug is somehow separate from the rest, requiring special recognition. Narcotics Anonymous makes no distinction between drugs. Our identification as addicts is all-inclusive, which allows us to concentrate on our similarities, not our differences.
What is The NA Clarity Statement?
A process of withdrawing a person from a specific psychoactive substance in a safe and effective manner.
What is Detox?
"We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."
What is Step 8?
Bee's collect and use this to make honey!
What is Pollen, or nectar?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
EGO
Easing God Out
What does the I stand for in the self-care acronym NOURISH?
Initiate Movement
What can you put in a bucket to make it weigh less?
A hole.
In 2017, _____ was responsible for more than 28,000 deaths in the US, which is more deaths than any other type of opioid.
What is fentanyl? (boooo)
_____ is a discrimination against an identifiable group of people, a place, or a nation.
What is Stigma?
"We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs"
What is Step 5?
This is the hottest planet in the solar system.
What is Venus?
This Green and Gold book can be acquired at a meeting of addicts. It is full of questions and is not a hard back.
What is an NA Step Working Guide?
RP
Switching your mindset to think of life as this game instead of a game of Chutes and Ladders can boost wellbeing
Solitaire
What has a bottom at the top?
Your Legs!
Efforts used to manage stressful events and difficult thoughts and emotions.
What are Coping Skills?
Any action by another person or an institution that intentionally or unintentionally has the effect of perpetuating an individual’s addictive process.
What is Enabling?
"Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions." (hint: pass around a basket and put $ in)
What is the 7th Tradition?
The hardest known natural material.
What are Jesse's Biceps - also accepted - What is Diamond?
**Double Points**
The circle and sides of the square of the NA symbol represent these.
Circle= Universal program
Square= Self, Society, Service, God
Base= Goodwill
FINE
Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional
What does the U of the NOURISH self-care acronym stand for?
Unite With Others
What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A teapot!
**DOUBLE POINTS**
In _______ we celebrate national Recovery Month.
What is September?
Physical and mental symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing the intake of a drug.
What is Withdrawal?
"We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out"
What is the 11th Step?
This is the lightest element on the periodic table, and the most abundant element in the universe.
What is Hydrogen?
Anxiety, intolerance, anger, defensiveness, mood swings, isolation, not asking for help, not going to meetings, poor eating habits, and poor sleeping habits.
What are signs of emotional relapse?
**DOUBLE POINTS**
BAI
Beck Anxiety Inventory
Dopamine, serotonin, and GABA are all examples of these
What are nuerotransmitters?
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
A deck of cards!
A term used to describe the amount of time a person has been continually abstinent from substances. This is celebrated in 12 Step fellowships such as CA and NA.
What is Clean Time?
This system within the body is made up of the brain and spinal cord. It controls thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and actions. This system can become damaged as a result of substance use.
What is Central Nervous System?
"We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves"
What is Step 4?
Roughly 90% of all earthquakes occur in this region on the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Our brain learns by _____ and ______.
What is repetition and reward?