Coping Skills
This technique involves writing down your feelings to help you understand and manage them better.
What is journaling?
"We admitted we were powerless over our addiction—that our lives had become unmanageable."
What is step one?
This is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States, and its active chemical ingredient is THC.
What is marijuana (or cannabis)?
True or False: If you have a stable job and family life, you cannot be suffering from addiction.
What is False?
Addiction affects anyone regardless of socioeconomic status or profession, and many people are high-functioning users
This common fruit is yellow and comes in a peelable skin.
What is a banana?
This simple physical coping skill helps immediately reduce stress by filling your lungs with air and slowing your heart rate.
What is deep breathing?
After writing the lists in Step 4, Step 5 says you must admit your wrongs to your Higher Power, yourself, and another human being, often this trusted person in recovery.
What is a sponsor?
These substances, which include morphine and heroin, act as potent pain relievers and can cause a person to appear sedated or "out of it."
What is heroin?
True or False: Anyone can attend an "Open" meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is true?
The season that comes after summer and before winter.
What is fall?
This coping skill involves purposely bringing your attention to the present moment, without judgment, often by focusing on your breath or surroundings.
What is mindfulness?
"searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
What is step four?
Nicotine is the highly addictive drug found in tobacco products. What type of drug is nicotine classified as: a depressant, stimulant, or hallucinogen?
What is a stimulant?
True or False: Once alcohol is in the bloodstream, drinking coffee or taking a cold shower can help you sober up faster.
What is false?
Only time will help
This famous cartoon character lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is Spongebob Squarepants?
This cognitive coping strategy involves altering your thought process by telling yourself positive and encouraging messages, rather than negative self-talk.
What is positive affirmations?
Step Nine focuses on this action, making things right with those we have harmed, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is making amends?
Cocaine and methamphetamine both fall under this class of drugs, which speed up the body's processes and can cause agitation or a "frenetic" behavior.
What are stimulants?
True or False: Relapse means that treatment has completely failed.
What is false?
Relapse is often viewed as a temporary setback or a learning opportunity in a chronic disease model
This Christmas character enjoys stealing gifts and is often labeled as "grumpy" and "mean".
Who is the Grinch?
This interpersonal skill involves learning to say "no" and clearly communicating your needs to others in a respectful manner.
What is boundaries?
After completing the first nine action steps, the last three steps focus on maintaining sobriety through prayer/meditation and this final act of service to others.
What is carrying the message?
This is the body's natural adjustment to a drug, requiring a larger and larger amount of the substance to produce the same original effect.
What is tolerance?
True or False: The 12 Steps require you to believe in a specific, religious God.
What is false?
What has hands but can't clap?
What is a clock?