Celebrities with Addictions
This R&B jazz singer is credited for the early development of soul music, and is famous for his hit song "Hit the Road Jack". He also recovered from his use of heroin.
Who is Ray Charles?
Which artist has albums named "relapse" and "recovery"?
Who is Eminem?
Pot, reefer, Mary Jane, weed, grass, etc.
What is Marijuana?
An orchestrated attempt by one or many people - usually family and friends - to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
What is an intervention?
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/ or physical consequences, and need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect.
What is substance use/ addiction?
This musical artist was famous for his duet with Teena Marie. He is also the vocalist of the hit song, " I'm in love with Mary Jane".
This female musician was asked to go to rehab and she declined. Thereafter, she died of a drug overdose.
Who is Amy Winehouse?
Ice, Speed, Crystal.
What is methamphetamine?
A form of treatment wear the client lives in a recovery facility.
What is Inpatient treatment?
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who , when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance use problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial?
This Famous diva uttered the now famous phrase "Crack is Wack".
Who is Whitney Houston?
This musical band is an English rock band that was the vocalist on the song, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds".
What is The Beatles?
Candy, Crack, powder, White Girl, Blow.
What is Cocaine?
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of drugs left in their body.
What is a detox?
The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body. Pertaining to addiction it it is generally a medically supervised treatment for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances.
What is detox?
This was one of the main characters on two and a half men, and he is the son of a famous actor.
Who is Charlie Sheen?
This popular movie is about a mother that used crack cocaine and mistakenly leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and panics the next day when she can not find him.
Who is Losing Isaiah?
Smack, Black tar, and skag.
What is heroin?
A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently in a therapeutic session that share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process
What is a support group?
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger?
This famous actor has been on many movies including but limited to "Do the Right Thing", "Pulp Fiction", "Snakes on the Plane", "Django", and every marvel movie.
Who is Samuel Jackson?
This 2012 film, is about a commercial airline pilot that uses both drugs and alcohol while operating a commercial plane.
What is Flight?
Vitamins
What are prescription drugs/ painkillers?
A slip from recovery where the patient returns back to their old habit/ behaviors.
What is relapse/ return to use?
Normal neurobiological event characterized by the need to increase the dose over time to obtain 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?