Triggers
Any person, place, or thing that can create a craving to use substances
What is an external trigger?
What is thoughts, feelings, and behaviors?
It takes more and more of a substance to get the same effect, which often fuels the desire and the need for using larger amounts.
What is tolerance?
Set of skills someone uses to avoid and deal with triggers and cravings.
What are coping skills?
This beverage company uses Santa Claus in its commercials.
What is Coca-Cola?
A thought or feeling that can create a craving to use substances
What is an internal trigger?
Thinking patterns that lead or contribute to relapse.
What is addictive thinking/"stinking thinking?"
Defense mechanism used to ignore negative or unpleasant thoughts or feelings. Overcoming this is often the first stage of recovery.
What is denial?
Three stages of relapse.
What is emotional, mental, and physical relapse?
The first name of Scrooge.
What is Ebenezer?
When you feeling like using, you should ask yourself whether you are H.A.L.T. What does this stand for?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired.
Thinking patterns that reflect the reality of what substance use looks like and helps you to stay sober.
What is recovery thinking?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Neurotransmitter that stimulates pleasure and motivation in the brain. Drugs cause the brain to produce more than normal amounts.
What is dopamine?
Stage of relapse where there is a war going on in one's mind of whether to use or not.
What is mental relapse?
The number of days of Hanukkah.
What is eight?
A powerful desire to use substances, often perceived as "impulsive" and "uncontrollable."
What is a craving?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Name three cognitive distortions/irrational thought patterns.
What is black-and-white thinking, catastrophizing, using "should" statements, discounting the positive, jumping to conclusions, overgeneralization?
Tremors, nausea, confusion, insomnia, irritability, sweating, and seizures can all be symptoms of this.
What is withdrawal?
Stress, anger, boredom, and loneliness are examples of this.
What are internal/emotional triggers?
These are the names of all of Santa's reindeer.
What are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph.
This response is activated in the brain when we are triggered.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
What S.M.A.R.T. goals should be (meaning of each letter).
What is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-oriented.
A set of principles, strategies, and ideas aimed at reducing the negative consequences associated with drug use. Philosophy of Victory Programs/NJH.
What is harm reduction?
Name two warning signs of relapse.
This popular Christmas song was the first song played in space.
What is Jingle Bells?