12 step principles
“We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Step 1: Honesty
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Therapists and clients pair to understand addiction triggers and develop tools that can be used to avoid or deal with triggers.
Memory blackouts.
Lack of coordination.
Sweating.
Bloating.
Slurred speech.
Nausea.
Vomiting.
Jaundice.
Alcohol
What does DARE stand for?
Drug Abuse Resistance Education
On average, over the course of our lives, we will spend an entire year doing what activity?
Being on the toilet
“Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”
Step 4: Courage
DBT
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: This form of therapy uses questions and answers to heighten consciousness.
Marijuana
In 6,000 BC, what substance did the Native Americans start cultivating?
Tobacco
What year was the movie Titanic released?
1997
“Humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings.”
Step 7: Humility
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: In this therapy, people recount a difficult episode while following a bright light, the therapist’s finger, or a mild sound with their eyes.
Opioids
In 1619, Jamestown colony law declared that all settlers were required to grow what substance?
Cannabis
What four presidents are on Mt. Rushmore?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt
“Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”
Step 10: Discipline
ECT
Electroconvulsive Therapy. Tiny shocks of electricity delivered to the brain are designed to assist with depression and inappropriate behaviors.
Cocaine
During which war was America's first opioid epidemic?
Civil War, where physicians prescribed opium gum, laudanum or morphine to treat the pain of gunshot wounds and other injuries, as well as diarrhea and cough.
Out of the four major US sports, (which includes the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL), which team names don't end in the letter s? (Hint; there are a total of 10 of them.)
NBA- Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Utah Jazz
NHL- Tampa Bay Lightning, Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild, and the Seattle Kraken
MLB- Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox
NFL- none
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
Step 12: Service
REBT
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: This is a comprehensive form of therapy made to help resolve emotional and behavioral problems.
Methamphetamine
Which country was first known to have used alcohol?
China: The earliest known evidence comes from 7,000 BCE in China, where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey.
Which states are the most northern, southern, eastern, and western out of the lower 48 states? (excluding Alaska and Hawaii)
Florida is the most Southern.
Maine is the most Eastern.
Washington is the most Western.
Minnesota is the most Northern.