All Included
True of False
Alcohol is a DRUG
TRUE
_____ are the single most common cause of arrests in the United States.
Drug offenses
narcotics anonymous is abstinence from mood altering, but not mind altering substances
false - abstinence from all mood and mind altering substances
Basic Test for AA
Big Book
Step 5 Key Concept
Keeping Secrets results in slavery. while confessing bring relief and joy.
This state of mind can be fatal for recovery! It's characterized by being too comfortable or not feeling motivated to continue doing the work
Complacency
A powerful desire to use substances
Cravings
What drives most people to NA
PAIN
when did Bill die
Jan 24 1971
Doing or thinking about something different when you feel yourself being triggered to use substances
Changing the Channel *What are things you do to Change the Channel?
What ingredient is in Narcan>
Naloxone
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference."
Serenity Prayer
Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
AA Primary Purpose?
Stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
Finish
Continued to take personal inventory _________.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Opiums main component comes from
poppy plant
6 factors that influence alcohol/ drug effects
body size, gender, time frame, amount, food, medicine
NA was created in ______ for recovering addicts, potential addicts and people with friends who are addicts. It is based upon ______
1953, based on alcoholics anonymous
how many pages are in the big book
576
First 5 steps
1.We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Anonymity is_____________________
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
addiction is a disease and a characteristic of disease is that it is _________ and ________
uncontrollable and progressive
NA refers to "peoples places things" as what and what? (people you can call or places that you can go)
playgrounds and playmates
Chapter 5 First 4 Sentences
Rarely Have we seen a person fail who has thorougly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who canot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way.
definition of alcoholism
a progressive, chronic disease involving a mental and physical need for alcohol