Relapse Prevention
Feelings, individuals, or situations that cause your brain to crave substances; if you are unaware of them, they could be a factor for relapse (People, Places, Things).
What are Triggers?
The only way to cure intoxication.
What is time?
Someone who guides a newcomer through the process of 12-step groups
What is a sponsor?
What are the 5 stages of change in recovery?
Pre-Contemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique
What is Mindfulness ?
The device that can save the life of someone that overdosed from an Opioid ?
What is Narcan
An intense desire to use alcohol or drugs.
What is a Craving
The first step of treatment
What is detoxification?
This a list of both your positive a negative character traits
What is a Moral Inventory
This stage of change the addict believes that a problem does not exist and is not interested in treatment
What is Precontemplation
Shifting your attention to something else in order to help fight a craving, such as smelling something strong like garlic.
What is Distraction
An addiction in which the user feels that they "NEED" to partake in a certain activity; body chemistry is NOT CHANGED.
What is psychological addiction
Harmful in recovery and can be things we tell ourselves to talk us into using again
What are relapse justification thoughts
During this early stage of recovering you feel happy and good about your progress, you feel extremely confident that your drug problem is cured.
What is Pink Cloud?
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference
What is the serenity prayer
This can happen at any time during the Stages of Change and can cause individuals to return to their previous problem behavior.
What is Relapse
Getting support from a neutral person who can help with mental health and addiction concerns
What is therapy or counseling?
This type of addiction changes the body's chemistry so the user CRAVES the substance.
What is physical addiction
Believing in our ability so greatly that it can cause us setbacks or problems in relation to recovery and mental health.
What is overconfidence?
Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired
This steps says "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the car of God as we understood Him
What is Step 3
This stage involves a continued commitment to sustaining the new behaviors learned in the action stage
What is Maintenance
The practice of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress
What is self-care?
100 Bonus pts for sharing one thing you do for self care
The amount of time a smoker will takeoff their life compared to a non-smoker of similar lifestyle.
What is 10 years
The three different types of triggers.
What are Internal, External, and Sensory triggers
Using another hobby, substance, or activity to replace or substitute feelings/results that you used to get from using
What is cross addiction
No one in NA or AA will choose this for you but they suggest that this be "Loving, Kind and Greater than yourself"
What is a Higher Power
This stage involves the individual deciding to change their behavior and beginning to think about how to do so.
What is Preparation
When this natural chemical is released in the body in large amounts, it creates feelings of pleasure and reward, which motivates you to repeat a specific behavior?
What is Dopamine
The scientific name for gambling
What is Ludomania