Big Book
Published in 1939, this is the common name for the text from which our fellowship gets its name.
What is the Big Book?
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is step nine?
Overdosing on this substance causes depressed level of consciousness, respiratory arrest, cold/clammy skin, cyanosis (bluish skin), markedly constricted pupils
What are opiates?
Medication, Behavioral therapy, Groups, Rehab, Inpatient/outpatient, Recreational, Occupational, Medical, Voc. Rehab, Music are all parts of this.
What are treatment options?
Physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance, and unable to stop taking it without incurring adverse effects.
What is Addiction?
There are this many chapters in the Big Book.
What are eleven chapters?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is step four?
Brain damage, heart weakness, tremors, and memory issues are all possible effects of consuming this substance for a long-period of time.
What is alcohol?
Anything that makes a person crave a drug.
What is a trigger?
These kinds of substances lowers neurotransmission levels, which is to depress or reduce arousal or stimulation, in various areas of the brain. It's also known as a "downer".
What is a depressant?
The Big Book claims this is the percentage of people attending A.A. have achieved sobriety.
What is 50%?
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
What is step eight?
The jail time you can face for the manufacture of heroin.
What is life in prison?
These types of programs are best for people who do not have stable living or employment situations and/or have limited or no family support.
What is residential treatment?
This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.
What is Justification?
These are the Three Legacies.
What is Recovery, Unity, and Service?
When you continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong, you promptly admit it.
What is Step Ten
This drug can cause altered senses (seeing brighter colors), altered sense of time, changes in mood, impaired body movement, difficulty thinking and problem-solving, impaired memory, hallucinations, delusions, and psychosis.
Commonly, the first step in treatment and recovery.
What is Detoxification?
This category of drugs produces analgesia (pain relief), narcosis (sleep), addiction, and euphoria.
What is a narcotic?
There were this many steps before Bill W. wrote the twelve steps.
What are six steps?
This is the first step in AA, word for word.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, blackouts, limb spasms, hearing loss and the loss of brain cells are consequences from abusing what type of drugs?
What are inhalants?
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM length of time a person should stay in treatment?
What is 90 days.
Over stimulating this brain chemical with drugs produces euphoric effects, which strongly reinforce the behavior of drug use—teaching the user to repeat it.
What is Dopamine?