12 Steps
Effects of substance abuse
Treatment/Recovery
Miscellaneous
100

This step helps us to see our own powerlessness.

What is Step One?

100

This drug causes the greatest number of deaths in the United States, is responsible for about one in five deaths.

What is tobacco? 

100

Doing this naturally releases feel-good hormones and can decrease the time it takes for the brain to recover from substance use.

What is exercise?

100

________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction

What is dopamine?

200

"We were always on the look our for ways we could force things to go as we wanted", demonstrates this step.

What is Step Three?

200

This substance will not restore senses affected by alcohol, such as vision; however, it is offered more than any other substance as a quick way to sober up.

What is coffee?

200

This is first stage of treatment/recovery.

What is detoxification?

200

Trying to protect the addicted person from facing the consequences of their drug related problems is called this.

What is enabling?

300

These two steps are known as the amends steps.

What are Steps 8 and 9?

300

Approximately 8.4 percent of the adult population in the United States suffer with this.

What is a substance use disorder?

300

On average, it takes at least this long for the drug addicted person's brain chemistry to recover.

What is one year?

300

Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. A state in which a drug produces a diminishing biological or behavioral response; in other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same effect experienced initially.

What is tolerance?

400

In this step you admit to at least one other human being the exact nature of your wrongs.

What is Step Five?

400

Smoking affects almost every, if not every part of the body, but it effects these three body parts the most, name at least two.

What are heart, lung, and blood vessels? 

400

These three things make a person more vulnerable to a substance use disorder, name at least two of the three.

What are genetics, environment, and personality traits?

400

People who become overly concerned with another's addiction problem and feel driven to fix or control it

What is co-dependent?

500

This step mentions "spiritual recovery".

What is Step Twelve?

500

Bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, blackouts, limb spasms,hearing loss and the loss of brain cells are consequences from abusing what type of drugs?


What are inhalants? 

500

This portion of the brain of an individual is "turned off" with continued use of substances. This part of the brain controls what.

What is prefrontal cortex and decision making?

500

A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, refuse to admit that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.

What is denial?