Back to Basics
These things are things I consider important in my life to the extent I want to protect them with good life choices.
The most widely abused drug in the US, also a depressant.
What is Alcohol
The only requirement for membership in a 12 step fellowship
What is a desire to stop
A return to using alcohol or drugs after a period of being abstinent.
Relapse
This activates the fight or flight response
What is stress, anger or craving
Fellowships that encourage and support recovery efforts for people struggling with addictions.
What is a 12 Step Group.
The 2nd most widely substance abused in the US, also in the hallucinogen category
Marijuana
A cyclical approach to how people change, which happens in stages
What is The Stages of Change model
An intense desire to use a drug or drink alcohol, even if sometimes it seems to come out "of the blue"
What is a craving, or an urge
The role in the addicted family that presents as the "black sheep" or the one who acts out, and rebels
What is the Scapegoat
People, places or things that create a strong desire or craving for use
What is a trigger
Leading cause of deaths by overdose in the US
What are opiates, what is heroin
The motivating feeling of the Family Hero that needs to be changed to recover
What is Inadequate or not good enough.
The #1 offender of the person who struggles with drugs and/or alcohol.
What is anger
Myths about 12 step groups
are religious in nature, they brainwash you, you have to talk about yourself
The three types of communication
What is assertive, aggressive, and passive
900% increase from 2017- current in the use of this drug
What is vaping nicotene
The first stage in the Stages of Change & Motivation.
What is Denial or no thoughts of changing
Research indicates this is the main reason people relapse back in drug / alcohol use
What is negative emotions, including stress.
A certain "treatment" or "group" that has shown the most success at predicting that people will stay clean and sober
What is AA or NA
The three rules in the dysfunctional family systems
What is Don't talk, Don't trust, Don't feel.
Also called "tina"
What is methamphetamine
A determination to accomplish something; an inner drive that pushes me towards goals and successes
What is MOTIVATION
The body's natural stress response, also the same body response to a physical craving
What is fight or flight
The name of the training manual and curriculum we are using for this group
What is Texas Christian University/ DATAR