Step Work
Facts about the Program
Potpourri
Big Book
General
200

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and our lives had become unmanageable.

What is Step One?

200

The founders of AA.

Who are Bill W. and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith (Dr. Bob)?

200

The group that's a mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else's substance abuse.

What is Al-Anon?

200

Practical experiences show that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking than this.

What is intensive work with other alcoholics?

200

These are some types of substance abuse treatment/support groups. 

What are IOP/OP, AA, NA, Inpatient/residential, Detox, and Individual counseling?

400

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 

What is Step Four?

400

These are the two prayers that are generally said at meetings.

What are the Serenity Prayer and The Lord's Prayer?

400

The month that we celebrate national Recovery Month.

What is September?

400

The three essentials of recovery from the Big Book.

What are honesty, open mindedness, and willingness?

400

These are some triggers for substance abuse.

What are boredom, anger, trauma, stress, celebrations, people, places, and things?

600

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

What is Step Seven?

600

This is the year that AA was founded.

What is 1935?

600

The legal blood alcohol concentration.

What is .08%?

600

They availed us nothing.

What are half measures?

600

These are two ways to increase your dopamine levels naturally. 

What is exercise, getting sunlight, meditation/prayer, get enough sleep, listen to music?

800
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for His will for us and the power to carry it out.

What is Step Eleven?

800

Your Higher Power has to be God.

What is false?

800

Heroin. Fetanyl. Morphine. Oxymorphone. Fetanyl. Codeine. Oxycodone. Vicodin. Percocet. Oxycontin. Methadone. 

Name three opiod drugs.

800

There are three sets of 12 guides to follow.

What are steps, traditions, and promises?

800

These are two of the stages of change.

What are pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance?

1000

Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

What is Step Ten?

1000

These are the two fellas that will talk you through the steps with their guides or tapes.

Who are Joe and Charlie?
1000

This is a risk of sharing needles and other drug paraphernalia.

What are hepatitis C, syphilis, or HIV?

1000

Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic and shares these things. 

What are experience, strength, and hope?

1000

These are two common signs of relapse. 

What are isolation, making excuses, lying, neglecting self, problems with friends/family?