Substance us
____________ is the overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs
What is substance use
The 1st twelve step fellowship, founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith.
What is AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)?
Refusing to acknowledge a problem exist.
What is denial
5 skills you have learned in treatment to overcome cravings and triggers.
Answers will vary
Charged for getting pulled over while intoxicated
What Is DWI/ DUI
The complex chronic brain disease characterized by drug craving, seeking and use that persists even in the face of devastating life consequences.
What is addiction
An experienced member who guides you through the 12 steps.
What is a sponsor?
Pointing to others as the cause of behavior. ( "I wouldn't drink so much if you would just quit nagging me")
What is blaming.
Involves any high-risk situation or stressor that sparks off a thought, feeling, or action to use drugs / alcohol. This spark, which is experienced as a temptation or desire to use is called a " craving" or "urge"
What is a trigger
Removed from Coca-Cola in 1903
What is Cocaine
__________ is a return to behaviors which has been previously stopped.
What is relapse.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is the ninth step?
Suppling reasons that "justify" unhealthy behavior. ("Hey, I don't want to drink so much, but it's the only way I can deal with the pressures at work and still keep my job")
What is rationalization.
Old people, places and situations.
What are triggers.
Type of treatment Beaty Recovery is
What is outpatient
What is the term used to describe a group of symptoms of varying severity which occur due to the cessation or reduction of use of a psychoactive substance that has been taken repeatedly usually for a prolonged period of time
What is withdrawal.
The three legacies of AA
What are recovery, unity and service?
Abandoning friends or family members in order to pursue one's addiction without being criticized or asked to stop.
What is isolation.
H.A.L.T.
What is hungry, angry, lonely, tired.( When you feel like using, you should ask yourself weather you are feeling any of these)
The founder of NA
Jimmy Kinnon
This lobe of the cerebral cortex helps a person with planning, making decisions and using self control. Alcohol can harm a person's ability to plan and make decisions, and use self control. If alcohol is used over a long period of time, this part of the brain can be damaged permanently.
What is the frontal lobe.
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we carry this message to alcoholics, and practice these principles in all our affairs is this step.
What is step 12
Taking negative emotions one is feeling and assigning them to others.
What is projection
Our brains learns by ________ and _____.
What is repetition and reward?
The most commonly abused drug across the nation
What is marijuana