Steps & Principles
Step 8: We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
What is Brotherly Love?
These substances can cause severe constipation and liver damage. It also damages the part of your brain that controls breathing, which can lead to a fatal build-up of fluid or CO2 in the lungs.
What are Opioids?
AA was founded by these two men, usually only referred to by their first names.
Who are Bill W. and Dr. Bob?
Readily available at many tobacco and vape shops, this currently unregulated substance may be adulterated and can contain heavy metals like lead, opioids, and even salmonella.
What is Kratom?
This 4-point program developed as an alternative to 12-step programs with a more secular, mental-health-based approach to addiction.
What is SMART Recovery?
Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Courage?
Abuse of this substance can cause permanent brain damage and liver cirrhosis. It is also a leading cause of heart disease.
What is Alcohol?
The original 12-step program.
What is AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)?
This chemical regulates mood but is most well known for enhancing pleasure and rewarding or reinforcing behavior.
What is Dopamine?
What is this treatment program's name?
What is Alchemy Addiction Recovery?
Step 2: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Hope?
Usually thought of as "harmless", this substance can cause problems for memory and physical coordination - especially when used by children, teens, and young adults. New research also links this substance to psychosis and psychotic episodes.
What is Marijuana?
Starting as an informal gathering of the spouses of AA members, this 12-step group (formally started in 1951) centers on helping the loves ones of alcoholics.
What is Al-Anon?
True or False: The dress code for ACER groups:
For Women: No short shorts/skirts/dress, no crop tops, and no excessive cleavage.
For Men: No muscle shirts and no visible undergarments. No graphic content on clothes; except drug paraphernalia.
What is False? No graphic content on clothes; including drug paraphernalia. Double Points
This lesser-known 12-step program seeks to help people with disordered eating and unhealthy relationships with food.
What is OA (Overeaters Anonymous)?
Step 10: We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is Perserverance?
This Class of substances can cause irreversible brain damage and trigger paranoia or anxiety. They are most dangerous to the heart, causing arrhythmia, heart attacks, and strokes.
What are stimulants?
This "spinoff" of AA was founded by "Jimmy K." in 1953 because AA did not address substances other than alcohol.
What is NA (Narcotics Anonymous)?
The Only Safe Driving Limit for BAC (Blood Alcohol Content). Anything BAC above this level will impair your ability to drive.
What is .00%?
A Major obstacle to recovery. The refusal to acknowledge or accept was is true.
What is Denial?
Step 9: We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is Discipline?
This Class of substances is often used by doctors to treat anxiety or to help sleep. When abused, these can have the opposite effect and actually worsen anxiety or sleep problems, and cause irregular heart rate, muscle tension, nausea, vomiting, and seizures.
What are Benzodiazepines?
Another offshoot of AA founded in Hollywood in 1982. Founders were concerned with one particular drug, but group's focus also includes "all other mind-altering substances".
What is CA (Cocaine Anonymous)?
This type of drug is found at gas stations. It is an antidepressant with opioid effects. It is sold as pills (ZaZa, Tianaa) and powder. It is also known as gas station heroin.
What is Tianeptine?
In addition to God, other examples include Nature, the Universe, Emergence, or even the 12-Step Group itself.
What is a Higher Power?