The Brain
Dopamine
What is the neurotransmitter responsible for pleasure?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is step 4?
People, places, and things.
What are triggers?
Challenging yourself to make thoughtful decisions about your life, including your use of alcohol and other drugs
What is Challenge 6?
part of the brain that is all about immediate satisfaction, doesn't think about future consequences
What is the "right-now brain"? (aka the limbic system)
Live and let live.. Keep it simple... Let Go and Let God... One Day at a time... progress not perfection, etc
What are some AA sayings/phrases?
3 skills you have learned in treatment to cope with triggers, mental health, stressors, etc
(can be a variety of answers)
recognizes your strengths and the good things about you, pushes you to believe in your own personal power
What is nurturing self-talk?
this circuit becomes increasingly sensitive with increased drug use, it plays a role in stressful feelings such as anxiety and irritability
What is the extended amygdala?
1935
What year did AA start?
the first stage of treatment.. may experience symptoms such as tremors, seizures, hallucinations...
What is detoxification?
Challenging yourself to look at your responsibility and the responsibility of others for your problems
What is Challenge 4?
Drugs over-activate this circuit to produce the euphoria of the drug high.. aka the brains reward circuit
What is the basal ganglia?
Akron, OH
Where did the first AA group start?
problems that have been masked, ignored, or intensified by your drug use
What are co-occurring problems?
What does the acronym KARMA stand for?
K-know your triggers. A-avoid situations. R-resist urges. M- monitor yourself. A-accountability!
Shifting balance between this circuit and the circuits of the basal ganglia and extended amygdala make a person with a substance use disorder seek the drug compulsively with reduced impulse control (controls your ability to think, make decisions, solve problems, etc)
Recite the serenity prayer.
“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"
a form of treatment that may help with cravings to help you take control over your drug use. Can help you safely cope with withdrawal
What is MAT (medication-assisted treatment)?
A way of life that is practiced by people who want to take charge of their own destiny... involves wise decision-making
What is mastery living?