Marijuana
Do You Know the 12 Steps?
Triggers and Cravings
Let’s Get Transmitting
Mental Health
100

This is a drug made from dried hemp leaves and can be a stimulant, depressant, and hallucinogen.  

What is marijuana?

100

This is the step 1 of the 12 steps.  

What is to admit we are powerless over the drug and our lives have become unmanageable? 

100

These are the people, places, and things your brain associated with your alcohol or substance use when you were in your addiction and can cause your brain to remember the substance use even when you are not using.  

What are triggers?

100

These are naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons.

What are neurotransmitters?

100

This is the most common diagnosis mental health disorder in the United States.  

What is depression/major depressive disorder?

200

This is the chemical found in marijuana that can stay in the body for weeks. 

What is THC?

200

This is the step where we make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.  

What is step 4?

200

This is how long on average a craving lasts.  

What is 10 to 20 minutes?

200

Alcohol and other drugs can cause neurotransmitter levels to be this.

What is unbalanced?

200

This is a term used to describe someone who has more than one disorder at a time (ex someone with major depressive disorder and alcohol use disorder).  

What is co-occurring/co-morbidity? 

300

The effects of THC are believed to be moderated by the influence of the other components of the plant, most particularly the _________________.

What are cannabinoids?

300

This is the step where we make a list of people we have harmed in the past and become willing to make amends to them.  

What is step 8?

300

If a trigger is not cope with it has the potential for causing these.

What are cravings?

300

This is a neurotransmitter used in the parts of the brain involved in regulating movement and experiencing pleasure.

What is dopamine?  

300

These include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and delusional disorder.  

What are thought disorders? 

400

This is a drug made by mixing marijuana and heroin together.  

What is A-Bomb?

400

This are also known as the maintenance steps.  

What are steps 10, 11, and 12?

400

This is the first step in dealing with triggers. 

What is identifying them?

400

This is a neurotransmitter used by cells in parts of the brain involved in the regulation of sleep, mood and eating.

What is serotonin? 

400

This means an individual has a persistent problem or dysfunction with how they think, feel, or function.

What is mental health disorder?

500

This is a drug made from mixing marijuana with PCP.

What is Super Glass?

500

This is the step where we ask our higher power to remove our shortcomings.  

What is step 7?

500

Triggers automatically causes a person to have these.  

What are drug using thoughts?

500

This is the most abundant neurochemical in the brain and critical in memory formation and consolidation.  This neurotransmitter is also responsible for preserving drug memories and creating drug cues.

What is glutamate?

500

This is the part of the brain that is responsible for the start of emotions.

What is the Limbic System?