12 Steps & Traditions
Who wrote the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous?
Who is Bill Wilson?
This opiate is 50 times stronger than heroin.
What is Fentanyl?
This American Sniper got sober at age 29.
Who is Bradley Cooper?
The refusal to accept reality or fact; acting as if a painful event, thought, or feeling does not exist.
What is Denial?
These are people, places, objects, feelings, and times that cause cravings.
What are Triggers?
"Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."
What is Step 2?
This class of drugs are natural and synthetic drugs that distort thinking, perception, awareness, and the senses (eg. LSD, DMT, psilocybin).
What are Hallucinogens?
This Iron Man has been clean and sober for 13 years.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
Placement of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings, or impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts, feelings or impulses.
What is Projection?
_____ is feeling bad about what you have done and _______ is feeling bad about who you are.
What are Guilt and Shame?
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
What is Step 4?
The name given to a family of drugs that have one or more synthetic manmade chemicals related to cathinone. Cathinone is an amphetamine-like stimulant found naturally in the khat plant. Chemically, they are similar to other amphetamines such as meth and MDMA. Packaging often states "not for human consumption" in an attempt to circumvent drug prohibition laws.
What are Bath Salts?
This legendary drummer no longer "gets high with a little help from his friends."
Who is Ringo Starr?
Putting something into a different light or offering a different explanation for one’s perceptions or behaviors in the face of a changing reality. Making excuses for a certain behavior. Example: "I've been sober for a year so clearly I can have just one drink now."
What is Rationalization?
HALT is the acronymn for ______.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired?
"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."
What is Step 9?
This drug's primary use is a sedative tranquilizer for horses, dogs, and cats.
What is Ketamine?
This sober front man sings "Mr. Brightside," "Smile Like You Mean It," and "Somebody Told Me."
Who is Brandon Flowers? (The Killers)
Unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses.
What is Repression?
_________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction.
What is Dopamine?
"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."
What is Tradition 12?
What does MDMA stand for?
What is Methylenedioxymethamphetamine?
This sober celebrity starred in both Argo and Gone Girl.
Who is Ben Affleck?
The redirecting of thoughts, feelings, and impulses directed at one person or object but taken out upon another person or object. Example: You're mad at your boss, but yell at your spouse.
What is Displacement?
Maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment.
What is Mindfulness?