Essential Elements Pt. 1
Examples include Just For Today, Basic Text, Big Book, It Works How and Why, and 12 x 12.
What is literature?
Peer support groups whose members gather on a regular basis to help one another stay clean and sober.
What are meetings?
A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined. Feeling alarm, apprehension, or dread.
What is fear?
To torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret. Feeling distressed, concerned, perplexed, annoyed, or burdened.
What is worry?
This drug is derived from the leaves of the erythroxylon cocoa bush grown in South America.
What is cocaine or crack?
Examples include acceptance, honesty, open-mindedness, willingness, surrender, faith, patience, tolerance, and unconditional love.
What are spiritual principles?
Helps the newly recovering addict through mentoring and supporting them, as well as by offering friendship.
What is a sponsor?
Concern only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
What is selfishness?
A disposition to lie, cheat, or steal. Lack of integrity.
What is dishonesty?
The chemically induced periods of amnesia experienced by users and addicts.
What is a "blackout?"
Examples include journaling, coloring, reading, meditating, working out, walking, etc.
What are coping skills?
Examples include God, Nature, the rooms, the Universe, Allah, Buddha, etc.
What is a higher power?
Averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent; slow-moving; sluggish. Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work. Avoiding or shirking.
What is laziness?
The feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc., regarded as causing injury or insult. Taking offense.
What is resentment?
Since their tolerance has lowered, these addicts are at a high risk of overdose during their first use in a relapse.
What are opioid addicts?
A group of people with common experiences or concerns who provide each other with encouragement, comfort, and suggestions.
What is a support group?
Any act which serves to keep the program alive so that others may profit from a sense of community and fellowship.
What is service work?
Offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride and contempt or disregard for others.
What is arrogance?
A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view. Bleak, cynical, despairing, disbelieving, doubting, foreboding, gloomy, hopeless, negative, skeptical.
What is pessimistic?
Some long-term side effects are heart damage, strokes, seizures, brain injury, despair, suicidal thoughts, mood swings, malnutrition, tooth decay and loss, hallucinations, and overdose.
What are amphetamines and methamphetamines?
A meeting or block of meetings that recoverees designate as their official meeting or group of meetings.
What is a home group?
Members confront and work to overcome negative emotions, some of which may be related to the underlying factors that contributed to the development of addiction.
What is step work?
Exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage. To exploit, maneuver, scheme, control, or play.
What is to manipulate?
A psychological state of mind of an individual in perceived adverse situations who has not accepted the situation and does not have the confidence nor ability to cope with it. Characterized by a person's belief that he or she is the victim of events and is therefore deserving of condolence.
What is self-pity?
Long-term use may bring about significant memory loss, learning disabilities, lethargy, chronic bronchitis, a weakened immune system, damage to the reproductive system, infertility in both sexes, impaired brain function, and an increased risk of developing lung or oral cancer.
What is marijuana?