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A substance invented by the Bayer Company in Germany in the late 1800's and thought to be a cure for morphine addiction.
What is heroin. **The scientists who invented it and used it said it made them feel heroic, thus, the name heroin**
A group for men and women who have a desire to stop using drugs or alcohol.
What are 12 Step Fellowships
This recovery network was established in the 1940's in California. It asserts it's therapeutic value for aiding people in recovery is that the program is based on people helping people.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
One is too many and ____________________________
What is a thousand is never enough?
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM length of time a person should stay in treatment?
What is 30 days?
Purely from the point of total cost and harm to the community, which is usually considered by experts to be the most 'dangerous' drug? This is probably due to its widespread use in most places.
What is alcohol.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the Serenity Prayer
After just one use this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for 3-6 weeks.
What is marijuana?
Live and ____________
What is Let live?
To politely, yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
A primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry.
What is addiction?
Which step asks you to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your past?
What is step four?
For a person to truly learn from past behaviors they must first process this emotion that is the result of violating moral guidelines.
What is Guilt?
Pain is inevitable, ____________ is optional
What is misery?
Tools that people use to handle the changes that happen in life, these can be positive or negative.
What are coping skills?
This term actually means to induce sleep, but the public often interprets it, wrongly, to mean any legal drug sometimes used illegally.
What is narcotic.
When you continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong, you promptly admit it.
What is Step Ten?
Lying to yourself or others to avoid facing the painful truth.
What is denial?
HALT stands for _________________
What is Hungry, angry, lonely, tired?
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Around 80% of ingested alcohol is absorbed through this part of the body.
What is small intestine?
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in this year.
What is 1935?
________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is dopamine?
Your __________ should never depend on another person's opinion
What is worth?
Our brain learns by _________ and _________.
What is repetition and reward?