This substance is legal, yet 95,000 deaths are attributed to it each year.
What is alcohol?
What are 2 things you can do to take care of your body /mind during early recover?
- Exercise
What self-help, fellowship studies the "big book"?
AA
Guilt is feeling badly about what you've done. ___ is feeling badly about who you are.
How long does a cicada live underground?
17 years.
What is Crystal Meth?
“A ________ is a limit or space between you and the other person; a clear place where you begin and the other person ends . . . The purpose of setting a healthy ________ is, of course, to protect and take good care of you.”
boundary
What are "triggers"?
A trigger is an experience that draws us back into the past and causes old feelings and behaviors to arise.
__________ is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol. When it occurs, it is often three days into the withdrawal symptoms and lasts for two to three days. Physical effects may include shaking, shivering, irregular heart rate, and sweating.
Delirium tremens
That last line in this movie is, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Casablanca
We watched "Chasing the Dragon" in group. The film focused on what epidemic?
What is the opioid epidemic?
________ is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
Meditation
When you detach, or disconnect with others.
Isolation.
A gap in a person's memory while drinking is called what?
a blackout
Madonna
Withdrawal symptoms include:
Cocaine.
What are three things you can do if you are craving alcohol?
Call someone
Journal
Drink some water
Take a nap
Etc.
"Happy, joyous and ____."
free
Withdrawal from these two groups of drugs can be potentially fatal.
Alcohol and benzodiazepines
How many "wonders of the world" are there?
7
K2 or Spice refers to what?
Synthetic Cannabinoids.
These chemicals are called cannabinoids because they are similar to chemicals found in the marijuana plant. Because of this similarity, synthetic cannabinoids are sometimes misleadingly called synthetic marijuana (or fake weed), and they are often marketed as safe, legal alternatives to that drug. In fact, they are not safe and may affect the brain much more powerfully than marijuana; their actual effects can be unpredictable and, in some cases, more dangerous or even life-threatening.
What are 3 habits you should adopt when trying to improve your sleep?
- avoid caffeine
- avoid tv/blue screens
- going to bed and waking up at similar times each day
- limiting naps
-limiting alcohol
What does M.A.T. stand for?
Medically assisted treatment.
The use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies
Examples:
Methadone
Naltrexone
Buprenorphine
___ sleep happens 90 minutes after you fall asleep.
REM
What year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
1865