Stage 1
This stage occurs immediately after stopping substance use and often includes physical symptoms such as sweating, nausea, and sleep disturbances.
What is withdrawal?
This recovery stage is characterized by excitement, optimism, and feeling better than expected.
What is the Honeymoon or Pink Cloud stage?
This stage often follows the Pink Cloud and can bring frustration, boredom, or disappointment.
What is The Wall?
This stage involves learning to live a balanced life without substances.
What is Adjustment?
This relapse stage occurs before a person even thinks about using.
What is emotional relapse?
This acronym describes lingering symptoms that continue long after acute withdrawal ends.
What is PAWS (Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome)?
Water freezes at this temperature on the Fahrenheit scale.
What is 32 degrees?
True or False: A craving usually last forever unless a person gives in to it
What is False?
This stage focuses on sustaining recovery and preventing relapse over time.
What is Resolution/Maintenance?
This relapse stage involves thinking about using, bargaining, or romanticizing past substance use.
What is mental relapse?
True or False: PAWS is experienced only for the first couple of weeks following abstaining from use of a substance.
False, PAWS can be experienced up to 2 years after stopping.
This feeling often leads people to think they no longer need meetings, therapy, or support.
What is Overconfidence?
People, places, emotions, or situations that increase the desire to use are called these.
What are triggers?
A group of crows is called this.
What is a murder?
HALT is an acronym reminding us to pay attention to these four vulnerable states.
What are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired?
What is the most common letter in the English alphabet?
What is E?
Name three people who might be part of a healthy recovery support network.
What are sponsors, counselors, peers in recovery, family members, mentors, or trusted friends?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Asking for help is often viewed as a sign of this quality, rather than weakness.
What is Strength?
Learning to tolerate discomfort without escaping through substances builds this quality.
What is resilience?
Name 3 symptoms of PAWS
mood swings, trouble concentrating, irritability, tiredness, brain fog, variable energy, etc
Name 3 ways to stay grounded during the Pink Cloud Stage?
What is attending meetings, working with a sponsor, therapy, journaling, or maintaining routines?
Name 3 healthy coping strategies for getting through the wall
What are using support systems, attending meetings, exercising, practicing self-care, therapy, or reaching out for help?
This recovery principle/ AA saying encourages focusing on the next right step instead of becoming overwhelmed by the future.
What is one day at a time?
Name three healthy responses/coping skills when experiencing a trigger.
What are calling support, attending a meeting, using coping skills, exercising, journaling, praying, or talking with a counselor?