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The 12 Steps
The Thinking Mind
Science of Addiction
Life in Recovery
Facts on Addiction
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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is Step 9?
100
This plays an influential role in our perception of the stress we are under.
What is a thought?
100
Most drugs affect the brain's "reward circuit" by flooding it with this chemical messenger. This overstimulation of the reward circuit causes the intensely pleasurable "high" that leads people to take a drug again and again.
What is dopamine?
100
A specific way of thinking that causes us to commit to one way of doing things while refusing to do anything else.
What is a Choice?
100
The inability to think clearly, memory problems, emotional overreactions or numbness, sleep disturbances, physical coordination problems, and stress sensitivity.
What are symptoms of PAWS?
200
The meeting of Bill W. and Dr. Bob S. (and Dr. Bob's last drink) mark the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in this year.
What is 1935?
200
The natural tendency to avoid the pain that is caused by thinking and talking about serious problems.
What is Denial?
200
A focus on the moral aspects of life, on doing what is right and what will help us to become the best people we are capable of being.
What is Spirituality?
200
The irrational urge to use alcohol or other drugs, even though we know that it will hurt us.
What is a craving?
300
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
What is Step 7?
300
The irrational urge to use alcohol or other drugs, even though we know that it will hurt us.
What is a craving?
300
What a person experiences as the result of difficult or upsetting events, especially those that continue for a period of time.
What is Stress?
300
Isolation, arrests, accidents, alienation, stealing, lying, cheating, divorce, estrangement, etc.
What is the consequences of addiction?
400
A desire that may be rational or irrational.
What is an urge?
400
Shame, guilt, hopelessness, loneliness, avoidance, anger, depression, anxiety, happiness,
What are relapse triggers/warning signs?
400
Introducing drugs to _____ during this time of growth and change can cause serious, long-lasting damage.
What is the brain?
400
Courageous, respectful, decisive, strong, patient, honest, practical, dignified, playful, hard-working, tolerant, understanding, self-confident, good provider, good partner, self-reliant, resilient, loyal, positive, kind, generous, humble, enthusiastic.
What are Values?
400
Our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and situations.
What are triggers?
500
A place where you are reminded of the consequences, you won't be judged, you learn other people's recovery techniques, and is a safe place to go.
What is an AA meeting?
500
Doing the right thing to gain our reward; we sacrifice and slave imagining that we are collecting brownie points that we can cash in some day. We base our decisions and actions on what others need, often ignoring our own needs.
What is Heaven's Reward Thinking?
500
When the brain adjusts to the excess dopamine, which reduces the high that the person feels compared to the high they felt when first taking the drug.
What is tolerance?
500
Recognition, acceptance, go somewhere else, talk it through, aerobics/yoga, eat a healthy meal, meditation and relaxation, distraction, urge-surfing.
What are coping skills?