Definitions & Terms
The use of mood-altering drugs that interfere with or has a negative effect on a person's life.
What is a Substance Use Disorder
The first step in solving any problem.
What is Identification of problem
What is a trigger
What are people, places, emotions, and things that are somehow associated with drinking or using.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step two
What is the difference between sadness and depression?
What is the duration and severity of symptoms and how it effects the persons everyday function.
A term used to describe severe problems related to the compulsive and habitual use of mood-altering substances.
What is Addiction
The second step of solving a problem by trying to understand how the problem started as well as being willing to change.
What is Owning the problem
An emotional state that you might experience before, during, or after substance use that can remind you of substance use.
What is an internal trigger.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step Four
The most common co-occurring disorder with substance abuse.
What is depression
Naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons.
What is Neurotransmitters
The fifth step to solving a problem occurs when you have selected a solution.
What is Making a plan and sticking to it.
Events, places, things, or specific times that you associate with substance use.
What is an external trigger.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is Step Nine.
The top five negative emotions.
What is Anger, Guilt, Fear, Grief and Shame
A physical process that happens when a person uses alcohol or another drug over a long period of time.
What is physical dependence
What is the final step of solving a problem in which you do not reinvent the wheel.
What is Learning from the outcome.
Senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch that can remind you of use.
What are sensory triggers.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step One.
Rebound effect of stimulant drugs.
What is depression
Opposite effects produced by a drug when alcohol or other drug use is cut down or stopped.
What is withdrawal symptoms
Part of problem solving in which the most important problem gets solved first.
What is prioritizing.
The first three steps to breaking the chain of events leading from trigger to craving to relapse.
What are identify, avoid, and interrupt.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
What is Step Seven
On average, how long does it take after using for your emotions to stabilize?
What is 3 months