Recovery Definitions
To admit or grant that something is true, or to surrender to your innermost self that you are an addict.
What is Concede?
"Concede to my innermost self that I am an addict."
What is Step 1?
Exactly 50 other recovered addicts and alcoholics actively helped write the original Big Book alongside Bill Wilson.
What is False? (Roughly 100 people made up the pioneering group that contributed to its development and editing).
Principle of Integrity
What is Step 5?
This prescription opioid (commonly known as OxyContin or Percocet) is processed rapidly by liver enzymes but typically remains clearable and detectable in urine for a standard window of 3 to 4 days.
What is Oxycodone?
Lacking the power, ability, or resources to manage or resist a substance or behavior on your own.
What is Powerless?
"Allowing myself to accept a higher power into my life."
What is Step 2?
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous was originally published in the year 1939.
What is True?
Principles of Service
What is Step 12?
This highly potent synthetic opioid requires its own specific panel on a 20-panel cup. Because it binds heavily to fat tissue, it can unexpectedly linger in a heavy user's urine for up to a week or more.
What is Fentanyl?
The underlying principle of Step 4 that requires facing uncomfortable truths and taking a moral inventory of yourself without backing down.
What is Courage?
"Made a searching and fearless inventory of myself."
What is Step 4?
On the actual title page of the Big Book, it officially says the phrase "Recovering Alcoholics."
What is False? (It reads "Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism.")
Principle of Forgiveness
What is Step 9?
This substance is famous for having the longest urine detection window. While an occasional user clears it in a few days, a chronic, daily user can test positive for up to 30 days or longer because it stores in body fat cells.
What is THC?
The spiritual principle of Step 1, which means adhering strictly to the facts and discarding denial about your addiction.
What is Honesty?
"Made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand God."
What is Step 3?
A person can completely fail Step 4 if they accidentally leave a past mistake off their inventory.
What is False? (The goal is a thorough, fearless effort; progress, not perfection, is the cornerstone of the steps).
Principle of Willingness
What is Step 6?
When a 20-panel cup tests for Alcohol, it does not just look for ethanol itself; it usually checks for this metabolite, which can flag alcohol consumption up to 48 to 80 hours after drinking.
What is EIG (Ethyl Glucuronide)
To recognize or receive something as a reality, shifting from trying to force an outcome to finding peace with things as they are.
What is Accept?
"Came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity."
What is Step 2?
Working Step 3 means you must belong to an organized, traditional religion.
What is False? (The steps explicitly emphasize "God as we understood Him," allowing for any concept of a higher power, including the group itself).
Principle of Discipline
What is Step 10?
This term describes what happens when a person takes two substances together (like alcohol and cocaine, which creates cocaethylene), altering how long it takes the liver to process and clear them both.
What is a Drug interaction?