Relapse Prevention
Triggers
Spirituality
Sober Support
Recovery Potpourri
100
A group of individuals one chooses to associate with in the interest of long-term sobriety.
Sober Support
100
What are triggers?
Feelings, experiences, people, places and things one associates with substance use
100
What is a Higher Power?
A power greater than ourselves
!!!! BONUS POINTS !!!!
+100pts/ correct example (up to +400pts)
100
This sober support member is actively involved in a 12-step program and willingly provides support and assistance to move through the program.
Sponsor
100
Mood swings, feeling alert, confident, or depressed are effects of these types of drugs.
Stimulants
200
These are the two major types of meditation.
- Concentration meditation
- Mindfulness meditation
200
Help to contact while experiencing a trigger is all around us including agencies with free 24hr hotlines. Name two.
- SAMHSA (National): 1-800-662-4357
- LCADA: 440-989-4900
- The Nord Center (Crisis Hotline): 1-800-888-6161
200
The act of doing, saying, or giving something to make up for the harm one previously caused.
Restitution/Amends
200
What is the purpose of involving family/loved ones in our recovery (e.g. family sessions)?
- To educate them on the disease of addiction
- Begin addressing trust issues formed while in active use
- Etc.
200
This late celebrity was best known for his roles as a comedian and actor and regular appearances on Saturday Night Live frequently alongside David Spade. Unfortunately, he overdosed in 1997 from a combination of morphine and cocaine complicated by an existing heart disease.
Chris Farley
300
Relapse is common when suffering through PAWS (Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms). Agencies like LCADA offer this treatment option utilizing prescribed medications to help reduce withdrawal symptoms.
MAT (Medically Assisted Treatment)
300
These are the three types of triggers.
!!!! DOUBLE POINTS !!!!
Provide examples of each
- Internal
- External
- Sensory
300
What does HOW stand for in the Living in Balance lesson on Spirituality?
H – Honesty (self-honesty toward unmanageability)
O – Open-mindedness (consider new ideas and be willing to learn)
W – Willingness (be committed to do whatever is needed)
300
Alcoholics Anonymous recommends avoiding new relationships in your first year of recovery. What are three reasons for this recommendation?
- Avoid distractions to personal recovery
- Focus on self-awareness
- Avoid potential relapse from potential breakup/argument
- Early sobriety is fragile
- Etc.
300
This is the “emotional memory” center of the brain responsible for euphoric recall of past use.
Amygdala
400
Relapse is a process not an event. Terrence T. Gorski and Merlene Miller composed a list of 37 warning signs leading up to a relapse which are outlined in the LCADA binders. What are three benefits of recognizing relapse as a process and familiarizing ourselves with it?
- Multiple opportunities to interrupt relapse
- Identifying personal signs of struggle
- Better proactivity to prevent relapse
- Etc.
400
According to the LCADA Living in Balance lesson on triggers and cravings there is a 4-step process to dealing with triggers. What are they?
1. Identify the trigger
2. Avoid the trigger (if possible)
3. Interrupt the trigger by doing a healthy activity
4. Talk about your trigger with trusted sober support
400
What is the importance of spiritualism in recovery?
Counselor's Discretion
400
Growing up in a dysfunctional family setting will likely result in development of dysfunctional family roles. What are the 4 roles identified in the Living in Balance program?
- The Hero (assumes undue adult responsibilities)
- The Placater (attempts to take care of family’s emotional needs)
- The Lost Child (overly accepting of situation and believes family problems cannot change)
- The Scapegoat (unjustly projected as the “problem” of the family’s dysfunction)
400
This state has the highest opioid overdose deaths/100,000 persons in 2018.
500
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs outlines 5 levels of human needs which can be a tool to personally improve and avoid relapse. What are the 5 levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
500
Each team member share your most recent trigger and how you handled it.
Counselor's Discretion
500
Alcoholics Anonymous is a spiritual program. How many of the 12 steps are for spiritual development?
All of them!
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. 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.
500
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many community support groups bolstered their online presence and many alternative options for sober meetings developed. What are 5 options for attending meetings online?
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Women for Sobriety
- In The Rooms
- Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART)
- LifeRing
- Etc.
500
This act, originally established in 1990, prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and was amended in 2008 to include persons with mental illness(es) and addictions.
Americans with Disabilities Act