12 Step Fellowships
This phrase reminds people in recovery to focus only on staying sober today, not forever.
What is “one day at a time” or "Just for Today"
This brain chemical is heavily involved in both drug and behavioral addictions.
What is dopamine?
This Massachusetts law provides limited legal protection when calling for help during an overdose.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
This term means to completely stop a behavior or use of a substance.
What is abstinence?
This overdose reversal drug works by quickly temporarily blocking opioid effects in the brain.
What is Narcan or naloxone?
This step asks you to take a personal inventory and look honestly at your behavior.
What is step 4?
What is the only behavioral addiction that is currently recognized among the mental health community that results in its own diagnosis?
What is Gambling Disorder?
This percentage of people in U.S. jails meet criteria for substance use disorder, higher than the general population.
What is about 60%? (range 50–70% acceptable)
This psychological process involves justifying harmful behaviors to reduce guilt.
What is rationalization?
This chemical stress system is activated during withdrawal and increases anxiety and irritability. It is sometimes referred to as the "stress hormone".
What is cortisol?
This term describes helping others in recovery as a way to strengthen your own sobriety and may involve obtaining a commitment.
What is service work?
What is another common term for behavioral addictions?
This is the leading reason people on probation or parole return to custody in Massachusetts.
What is a technical violation? (often drug use or missed appointments)
This treatment approach uses medications alongside counseling and can result in better outcomes for some individuals.
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) or Medication-Supported Recovery (MSR)?
Dopamine is involved in motivation and reward, not just pleasure.
True
This co-founder of AA authored most of the Big Book and developed many of the program’s guiding principles. His first name is Bill, but what was his last name?
What is Wilson?
This term describes a pattern of putting others’ needs ahead of your own in unhealthy ways.
What is codependency?
This time period carries the highest risk of overdose death after release from jail or prison.
What is the first 1–2 weeks after release? (accept first month)
These are internal or external things that increase the urge to use.
What are triggers?
This part of the brain is responsible for decision-making and impulse control, and is weakened in addiction.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This earlier Christian movement influenced AA’s emphasis on confession, restitution, and spiritual growth.
What is the Oxford Group?
This concept explains why people need more of a behavior to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Alcohol prohibition didn’t actually ban drinking.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE. It only covered the manufacture, sale, and transport. That loophole helped fuel bootlegging culture.
In many men, __________shows up as irritability, aggression, sensation-seeking, risk-taking, or rule-breaking—patterns closely linked with substance problems.
Name a feeling/emotion.
Depression, grief, pain, anxiety, fear, confusion
This term describes the brain’s ability to change and adapt, both in addiction and recovery.
What is neuroplasticity?