Character Defects
To act without Honesty
What is Dishonest?
Two well-known support groups associated with alcoholism and addiction.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous, and Narcotics Anonymous
Taking a bath, getting your hair or nails done, going for a walk, or doing something you love to do.
What is Self Care
A strong desire to consume a particular substance.
What is a Craving?
The act of avoiding and distancing yourself from the community.
What is Isolation
The three most important spiritual principles
What is Honesty, Open-mindedness, and Willingness?
A natural way to get in shape and increase dopamine.
What is Exercise?
When a person gradually needs a larger dose of a drug to feel the same effect.
What is Increased Tolerance?
Being more interested in proving yourself right rather than in getting the best outcome.
What is Close-Minded?
According to page 417 of the Big Book, _____ is the answer to all my problems today.
What is Acceptance
A set of techniques that are intended to encourage a heightened state of awareness and focused attention on the breathe.
What is Meditation?
A combination of physical and mental effects that a person experiences after they stop using or reduce their intake of a substance. Ex. Sweating, Goosebumps, Vomiting, Anixety, Insomnia, and Musle Pain
What is Withdrawal?
The act of being excessively concerned with oneself and their own needs.
What is Selfish, and Self-Centered?
When you continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong, you promptly admit it.
What is Step 10
Helping to ensure that you are on the right path of remaining alcohol and drug-free, taking care of yourself from both a physical, and emotional point of view, and using healthy coping skills such as relaxation and communication
What is Relapse Prevention
A medication called an “opioid antagonist” used to counter the effects of opioid overdose, for example morphine and heroin overdose.
What is Narcan?
the fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse of others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy, attention seeking or diffusion of responsibility.
What is Playing the victim?
Chapter 4 of the Big Book (pgs. 44-57)
What is We Agnostics?
Playing the tape all the way through
What is thinking about all the consequences BEFORE we pick up. THINK BEFORE WE DO.
A psychological and physical inability to stop consuming a chemical, drug, activity, or substance, even though it is causing psychological and physical harm.
What is Addiction?