TV Guide to Addiction
This television series shows the destruction of a teacher who gets caught up in the "greed" of manufacturing methamphetamine.
What is Breaking Bad?
Downtown Minneapolis is home to this largest continuous network of these walking paths.
What is the "Skyway"?
This term is to describe when a person has a mental health diagnosis in conjunction with a substance use disorder.
What is "co-occurring disorders"?
This movie's title includes the old standard for the Minnesota Model in terms of a typical person's length of stay at a residential treatment center. The movie also focuses on this residential treatment experience.
What is "28 Days"?
It is often said that you only need ________ to have an AA meeting.
What is two alcoholics?
This television series is about a gifted doctor who uses medications not only with his patients but to feed his own addiction.
What is "House"?
Saint Paul was originally known as this name which described the body part of a farm animal and was also the nickname of a French-Canadian whiskey trader.
What is "Pig's Eye"?
This term is used to describe when your brain is triggered to remember a positive experience with using drugs and/or alcohol.
What is Euphoric Recall?
This "dream" movie focuses on the delusion and desperation of four drug addicts in active addiction.
What is "Requiem for a Dream"?
The General Service Office where AA publishing and national organizing occurs is based out of this city.
What is New York?
This Showtime Series, now available for "binging" on Netflix focuses on the enabling and co-dependency of a "binging" alcoholic father.
What is "Shameless"?
Known for it's lakes, Minnesota has the highest ratio of this form of transportation per person. The rate is one of these recreational objects per 6 people.
What are boats?
Addressing negative thinking, the use of positive thinking and affirmation, and grounding techniques are considered a part of this psychological approach.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT?
This film focuses on the demise of an aviator's career due to his "drinking on the job".
What is "Flight"?
In 1950 Bill Wilson travelled to Europe to see for himself how the message of AA had spread. At the time there were 3,527 groups in approximately 34 countries. Today there are more than 114,000 groups in approximately how many countries (closest wins).
What are 170 countries?
This Netflix series focuses on a family who gets caught up in the financial side of drug addiction including development of a relationship with a Mexican Drug Cartel.
What is "Ozark"?
This toy was invented, developed, and manufactured in the West Metro. Its affectionate name includes the slang name for the town.
What are "Tonka Trucks"?
This neurotransmitter in the brain is focused on pleasure and can be greatly impacted my addiction.
What is Dopamine?
This film based in Britain focuses on the exploits and addictions of young people in London.
What is "Trainspotting"?
It is said that an AA member who needs to speak with another alcoholic in an airport can ask for an announcement of what phase to have another AA member respond.
What is "A Friend of Bill W"?
This series that premiered on Showtime is titled with the slang term for a drug and focuses on a mother's entrepreneur exploits selling this drug to support her family.
What is "Weeds"?
The Arboretium down the street is part of the University of Minnesota Agriculture Department. This same department developed this very popular apple variety in 1974 that has generated 11 million dollars for the University of Minnesota by 2011.
What is "Honeycrisp"?
This psychological approach often incorporated into addiction treatment utilizes the "wise mind" to find a middle ground between logical and emotional thinking.
What is DBT or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
This Academy Award Best Picture Nominee focuses on the impact of co-occurring issues on the relationship between two musicians.
What is "A Star is Born"?
Bill Wilson was from Vermont. The other co-founder of AA Doctor Bob was from this Midwestern city.
What is Akron, Ohio?