12 Steps
What is the first step? (100)
Admitting we are powerless
What is relapse prevention?
A way to help find/identify triggers and early warning signs of a relapse.
How many stages of change are there?
6
What is harm reduction?
Harm reduction attempts to reduce the adverse consequences of drug use or any any negative action.
Name a fair fighting rule?
- Identify why you are upset
- Do not put each other down
- Express with words
-Let each other speak
- Listen
- Take time outs
-Attempt to compromise/understanding
What step is "Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
Step 5
What are some examples of relapse prevention.
Relapse prevention plan, self care, joining support groups, reach out...
What is the first stage of change?
Pre-contemplation
What is an example of harm reduction?
Safer use, using clean equipment, abstinence, using in a safe environment,
Can addiction be genetic/hereditary?
Yes
What is step 9
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
A relapse prevention plan is comprised of measures, techniques, and many different tools to avoid falling back into bad habits.
What is the 4 stage?
Action- taking steps towards change
True or false: There are legal drug consumption supervised sites designed to provide a hygienic and stress-free environment for drug consumers.
True
Name 3-5 healthy coping skills.
deep breathing, meditation, coloring, walking, running, journaling...
Name the step that is "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
Step 7
What should you do if you relapse/slip?
Call sponsor/counselor, reach out to trusted person, call hotline, seek help...
What is the 5th stage
Maintenance- Has achieved goals and working on maintaining change
What drug may reverse an opiate overdose overdose?
Narcan
What takes place in the determination stage? (stages of change)
Committed to changing, still considering what to do
What is step 11
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
What are some relapse warning signs?
Compulsive/impulsive behavior, isolation, lying, rejecting help, denial, not attending meetings/sessions, avoidance...
Name all 6 stages of change.
Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
action
Maintenance
Relapse/Slip
Myth or fact harm reduction encourages drug use?
Myth- It does neither, the goal is to meet people where they are at.
Name all the 12 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.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.