Early Recovery
Often described as a strong desire or urge, that is impulsive and uncontrollable.
What are Cravings
This type of drug causes elevated heart rate, increase activity of central nervous system activity.
What are stimulants?
Recommended amount of meetings a newcomer should attend.
90 in 90.
People, places, and things that cause your brain to crave substances.
What are external triggers?
This famous musician known for hits such as, Crosstown Traffic and All Along the Watchtower, died of asphyxiation while high on barbiturates.
Process of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your wellbeing and happiness.
What is Self Care?
What does H.A.L.T.
Don't get too hungry, angry, tired, lonely.
This occurs after detox and continues to cause biopsychosocial issues up to 24 months later.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
Name 3 specific areas of the body that are directly affected by the use of alcohol and/or drugs.
Liver, Heart, Brain, Pancreas, lungs, etc.
A person who guides someone through the 12-steps and traditions, and acts as a main support.
Who is a sponsor?
What is the first step in the relapse process.
unhealthy emotions
This famous rapper was mentored in recovery by Sir Elton John.
Who is Eminem?
A mental process that we use to protect ourselves from some aspect of ourselves or our lives that we perceive to be uncomfortable or threatening.
What are defense mechanisms?
Bonus:
Name 5 defense mechanisms
Spending a few minutes writing down some good things about your day is called what?
Gratitude journal
Using another substance or activity to substitute feelings you used to get from using.
What is cross-addiction?
This class of drugs alters your state of consciousness and is characterized by major alterations in thought, mood, and perception, among other changes.
What are hallucinogens?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step 4?
Believing in our ability so greatly that it can cause setbacks or problems in relation to the recovery process and our mental health.
What is grandiose thinking (pink cloud, over-confident, cocky) ?
This 2018 movie star's Bradley Cooper as a musician that helps a younger singer find fame while battling mental health and alcohol and drug addiction.
What is "A Star Is Born."
Addiction is a chronic progressive disease that effects people physical, mentally, and ________.
What is Spiritually?
A mental exercise that involves relaxation, focus, and awareness.
Meditation
Three types of triggers.
What are sensory, internal, and external?
Drug that is sometimes classified as a depressant, stimulant, or hallucinogen?
What is Marijuana?
What are the essentials of recovery according to AA?
Willingness, honesty, and open-mindedness.
Avoid, Interrupt, and talk about them.
Bonus:
Give an example of how to interrupt a trigger
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse are members.
What is the 27 club?
The opiate overdose reversal drug is ______.
What is Narcan or Naloxone?
Bonus:
After administering a dose what do you do?
Double Bonus:
How do you get it?
Technique in which a person learns to ride out an urge instead of feeding it.
Urge Surfing
What is a dry drunk?
This syndrome damages nerve cells and supporting cells in the brain and spinal cord, as well as memory function.
Korsakoff Syndrome (wet brain)
The four absolutes.
What are Honesty, Unselfishness, Purity, and Love?
The final step in the process of a relapse.
What is the aftermath?
Christian Bale won an academy award for his portayal of crack addict and former boxer, Dicky Eklund, in this 2010 film.
What is "The Fighter."
The practice of challenging irrational beliefs and cognitive distortions.
Cognitive restructuring or challenging the negatives.