Addiction/Symptoms
A persistent, habitual use of alcohol.
What is Alcoholism or Alcohol Addiction.
The condition of being physically and mentally dependent on a substance.
What is addiction?
We admitted we were powerless over our substance and our lives have become unmanageable.
What is step one?
You receive advice or guidance, especially as solicited from this type of knowledge person.
What is counselor or therapist?
The twelve-steps were originally ___ steps, that were broken down in to smaller sections to make them easier to understand.
6
A gradual using more of the product to achieve the same effects as the first use.
What is tolerance?
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is step ten?
A set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems.
What is a twelve-step program?
This substance used to be legal and was marketed as a cough suppressant in 1898 by Bayer & CO.
What is heroin
Abnormal physical or psychological features that follow the abrupt discontinuation of a drug that has produced a physical dependence.
What is withdrawal symptoms?
A guide/mentor, fellow recovering addict that volunteers time to help others.
What is a sponsor?
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
What is step eight?
What is the first stage of treatment?
Detox/Discontinuing use
This person claims Burger King saved his life from his drug addiction. (Hint: Billionaire super hero)
Robert Downey Jr.
Long term effects of this substance used are: addiction, respiratory failure, vomiting, death, drowsiness, reduction of pain, constipation
What are opiates?
_____ behavior resulting from or relating to an irresistible urge, especially one that is against one's conscious wishes.
Compulsive
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is step four?
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kid could include 12 step information, important phone numbers and meetings, healthy recreation activities, outpatient treatment.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, overdoses have increased by _0% in the US.
50%
Individuals with tobacco use disorder have 8.2x the chance of getting this illness _____.
Covid-19
Describe the difference between abuse vs dependence.
Abuse - pattern of drug or alcohol use that leads to negative consequences (i.e) work, school, relationships, interpersonally, mentally, ect.
Dependence -is a physical and mental reliance on drugs or alcohol. Unable to stop using despite the negative consequences, and experience cravings and withdrawal symptoms when they do.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is step nine?
A set of practical strategies aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use.
Harm Reduction.
_____ consume 80% of prescription pills globally.
Americans.