Triggers
Coping Skills
Negative Coping Skills
Recovery
Treatment
100

What is the definition of a trigger?

What is feelings, experiences, people, places, and things that you associate with your drinking and/or drug use

100

Describe three positive coping skills.

What is Exercise, Reading, Yoga, Deep Breathing, Tapping, Talking to someone, Playing the tape through, etc.

100
The act of deliberately harming one's body with a knife, razor, or any sharp object.
What is Cutting
100
True or False - A healthy recovery requires people to change their lifestyles in order to avoid behaviors, people, places, and things that can trigger relapse?
What is TRUE
100
• Medication • Behavioral therapy • Groups • Rehab • Inpatient/outpatient • Recreational • Occupational • Medical • Vocation •Rehab • Music
What are treatment options
200
Internal Trigger
What are feelings that people have before or during drinking or using drugs
200

True or False. “Instant Fixes” for stress exist?

What is FALSE

200
The act of avoiding and distancing yourself from the community.
What is isolating
200
Who are people that can help you solve problems in your life?
Who are sponsors, people at self-help meetings, family members, counselors, teachers and sober friends
200
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
300

What are external triggers?

What are the people, places, and things associated with drinking or using drugs?

300
List three people you can talk to when you are struggling.
Who are Family members, Sober Friends, A Sponsor, A Therapist, A Doctor, AA/NA Members, etc.
300
To deny your body's hunger by deliberately not eating.
What is starving
300
HALT is the acronym for ______
What is What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired. The key to maintaining a life in recovery is a combination of self-care and self-awareness. By taking care of ourselves and recognizing certain signs, we can prevent relapse. One of the tools some people use is HALT. This handy acronym reminds us to take a moment (HALT) and ask ourselves if we are feeling Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired. It seems simple enough, but when these basic needs are not met, we are susceptible to self-destructive behaviors including relapse. Fortunately, hunger, anger, loneliness, and tiredness are easy to address and serve as a warning system before things reach a breaking point.
300
What might be a threat to my relapse prevention? a. Living with a family member who uses. b. Hanging out with old friends. c. Not having a support system. d. Thinking it is o.k. to use just once. e. All of the above.
What is e. All of the above.
400

What are the steps to avoiding triggers?

What is identifying, avoiding, interrupt, and talking about them. 1) Identifying - being aware of triggers 2) Avoiding them - avoid people, places, or things that are high-risk 3) Interrupt them - do a healthy activity that keeps you occupied 4) Talk about them - it is important to reduce the power of a trigger by talking about them, especially in a safe place such as a self-help meeting or a therapy session.

400
List 3 positive coping skills
What is exercise, art, meditation, yoga, deep breathing, journaling, grounding, singing, cleaning, dancing, volunteering, etc.
400
The act of regurgitation, excessive exercise, laxatives, and diuretics
What is purging
400
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gambler's Anonymous are all examples of programs with this type of format that can support you in recovery.
What are 12-Step Fellowships?
400
What is a treatment plan?
What is the tool that focuses on patient goals and progress in treatment?
500

What are sensory triggers?

The relationship between the senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.

500
A desire or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time, no matter the costs.
What are goals
500
yelling, screaming, and fighting
What are negative ways to deal with anger
500
To be pushed into something because of the influence of people your own age.
What is Peer Pressure?
500
True or False: Relapse can happen without using.
What is TRUE. We can do the same using behaviors before we start using, which can increase the likelihood of relapse.
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