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100

When you are feeling negative or depressed, visualize a list of all the things that you are grateful for.  Concentrate on the good that you have.  By focusing on the positive, you are less likely to be sucked into the negative. 



What is a Gratitude List

100

The first step of Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous is this.

We admitted we were powerless over our addiction and that our lives have become unmanageable

100

Cocaine and methamphetamine are members of this class of drugs

What are stimulants

100

In recovery, I need to consider avoiding old ____________, _____________, and ________________

What are people, places, and things

100

Needing more of a drug to achieve the same effect OR a diminished effect when using the same amount is called this.

What is tolerance

200

Clear changes in choice, support, motivation and structure/ritual that represent the lapse behavior.  Examples include cutting down or NO meetings, cutting corners in chores, missing meds and refills, associating with old using friends, and testing personal control.

what are warning signs

200

The primary responsibility of a sponsor is this

What is help me work the 12 steps

200

Heroin is a member of this class of drugs

What are opioids

200

This recovery skill involves the use of other people in recovery to support my own recovery

What is (sober) support

200

This term means addiction always gets worse, never better, over any considerable period of time.

What is progression

300

Before acting on impulse, think about a possible consequence and outcomes that are attached to the impulse/action.  Sometimes, reminders of the end result (like a movie that ends in relapse, jail, or death) can stop you from making a poor decision.

What is Playing the Tape All The Way Through

300

The only requirement for 12 step membership is this.

The desire to stop using

300

Anxiety, shaking, DTs, seizures, and vomiting are most often associated with withdrawal from which substance

What is alcohol

300

The acronym HALT in recovery stands for what

Hungry

Angry

Lonely

Tired

300

The neurotransmitter most often associated with addiction is

What is dopamine

400

Taking an event or feeling and looking at it differently.  Instead of looking at it from a negative viewpoint, looking at it from a positive.  Example: A glass is half empty.  The reframe would be, “The glass is half full”.

What is to Refram

400

12 step programs are not religious but ARE this.

What is spiritual

400

Body aches, hot/cold sweats, runny nose, fast pulse, and diarrhea are typical withdrawal symptoms for which substance

what is heroin

400

Everyone who uses drugs will become addicted. True or False?

What is false

400

Addiction is a primary disease.  It is not necessarily caused by something else like trauma or mental health

What is true

500

Intentional awareness of one’s thoughts, actions, motivations, and environment. Bringing the mind to focus on what is happening in the present moment, noticing the mind's usual "commentary", and what your sensations are telling you. Through learning to control what you pay attention to and how long you pay attention to something you can learn to control you impulsive behavior.

what is Mindfulness

500

Addiction is a primary disease.  It is not necessarily caused by something else like trauma or mental health.

What is true.

500

This drug can be both a stimulant and a depressant, depending upon how much I use.

What is alcohol

500

Prayer, meditation, nature, journaling, music, and art all all recovery skills that fit under which recovery principle

What is spirituality

500

The phenomena of replacing one drug for another is called this

What is cross addiction or drug switching